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April 17, 2012 10:15 AM Subscribe
Apple Hates Brunettes: "After several years and 13 million users, Apple summarily removed iKamasutra from the App Store on February 20, 2012, ostensibly for adding brown hair coloring to our drawings. Then, on March 14, it was just as arbitrarily pulled from the Google Play Store. I have been trying to understand Apple's and Google's sudden concerns and address them, but with limited feedback and no real dialog from them, despite all our efforts, our options have dwindled."
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a bummer of a situation for the developer but as much as the nature of app store administration is an interesting and tricky subject, a blog post about a dev's bad experience is kind of a thin footing for that discussion. -- cortex
Google is Open (except to dialog)
Google's main innovation in this space was to merge their technical support help desk with Chat Roulette, so that any time you need help with one of their products, you get routed to someone else who also needs assistance. A very clever bit of synergy, actually.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:22 AM on April 17, 2012 [8 favorites]
Google's main innovation in this space was to merge their technical support help desk with Chat Roulette, so that any time you need help with one of their products, you get routed to someone else who also needs assistance. A very clever bit of synergy, actually.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:22 AM on April 17, 2012 [8 favorites]
It's actually kind of surprising they allowed that app in the first places, considering how prudish Jobs was.
posted by smackfu at 10:23 AM on April 17, 2012
posted by smackfu at 10:23 AM on April 17, 2012
The App Store seems like a really good example of how not to run an app store.
Unless you love raking in money for doing almost nothing. Sorry, not nothing; "creating a market."
posted by 2bucksplus at 10:24 AM on April 17, 2012
Unless you love raking in money for doing almost nothing. Sorry, not nothing; "creating a market."
posted by 2bucksplus at 10:24 AM on April 17, 2012
how prudish Jobs was
Must resist urge to make horrible puns.
posted by Fizz at 10:25 AM on April 17, 2012
Must resist urge to make horrible puns.
posted by Fizz at 10:25 AM on April 17, 2012
The App Store seems like a really good example of how not to run an app store.
Can you point me to the good one?
posted by cjorgensen at 10:25 AM on April 17, 2012 [2 favorites]
Can you point me to the good one?
posted by cjorgensen at 10:25 AM on April 17, 2012 [2 favorites]
I'm sitting here looking at my iPhone, and it looks like there are about a hundred kama sutra apps.
I really feel for a person who put a lot of time into this app, but – well, I really don't feel that terrible if they're starting to week these things out. I don't think it's even about quality at this level. It's just way too much.
posted by koeselitz at 10:27 AM on April 17, 2012
I really feel for a person who put a lot of time into this app, but – well, I really don't feel that terrible if they're starting to week these things out. I don't think it's even about quality at this level. It's just way too much.
posted by koeselitz at 10:27 AM on April 17, 2012
So you ban one of the earliest? That makes zero sense.
posted by smackfu at 10:28 AM on April 17, 2012
posted by smackfu at 10:28 AM on April 17, 2012
This is part of the price we all pay for not having sanity as far as operating system design goes.
If you could run an app and only give it access to your choice of files, I/O, etc... we wouldn't need these G*d forsaken "app stores", and go back to the good old days of shareware, etc.
posted by MikeWarot at 10:29 AM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
If you could run an app and only give it access to your choice of files, I/O, etc... we wouldn't need these G*d forsaken "app stores", and go back to the good old days of shareware, etc.
posted by MikeWarot at 10:29 AM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
In the example pages, the lady also got a butt crack.
The guys down in the Google Goggles lab are working on an (eye)patch for that.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:32 AM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
The guys down in the Google Goggles lab are working on an (eye)patch for that.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:32 AM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Blazecock Pileon: "Google is Open (except to dialog)
Google's main innovation in this space was to merge their technical support help desk with Chat Roulette, so that any time you need help with one of their products, you get routed to someone else who also needs assistance. A very clever bit of synergy, actually."
It sounds like Mayday Games...
posted by symbioid at 10:35 AM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Google's main innovation in this space was to merge their technical support help desk with Chat Roulette, so that any time you need help with one of their products, you get routed to someone else who also needs assistance. A very clever bit of synergy, actually."
It sounds like Mayday Games...
posted by symbioid at 10:35 AM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Google's main innovation in this space was to merge their technical support help desk with Chat Roulette
Combined with iKamaSutra you get... well... Chat Roulette.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 10:35 AM on April 17, 2012
Combined with iKamaSutra you get... well... Chat Roulette.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 10:35 AM on April 17, 2012
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