I'm Kevin Twohy, and I'm an Interaction Designer living in San Francisco. These are the pictures I take. This is my email. Here's my Facebook. And for better or worse, I occasionally use Twitter.
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The situation crystallizes our worst fears about Apple’s dictatorial App Store. Users aren’t being protected from bad things or from themselves here. Even though it seemed ridiculous to us, when apps with objectionable content were blocked or booted before the ratings system was in place, it was in the interest of some paradoxically lazy but over-protective parent somewhere out there. But the only thing being guarded is some ephemeral long-term interest of AT&T against the devaluation of phone numbers and the ability to easily use any phone at will. (FWIW, AT&T says “AT&T is not involved in the approval process, so we can’t speak to this issue.”) Not only is Apple hurting users in the service of AT&T by denying them innovative new features, they won’t even bother to come up with a good excuse. If they’re going to lie about it, they could at least make the rationale believable. To truly get a sense of the chickenshittniess on Apple’s part, Just read this account of the conversation VoiceCentral’s developer had with Apple when they were told their app was going to be pulled from the store. It’d be hilarious if it didn’t mean a developer got screwed.
