Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring

Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by ivankirigin on Thursday August 06, 2009 @03:39PM (#746232)

I expect my kids to eventually outsmart anything I do to hide things from them, long before they are old enough to vote.

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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by calambrac on Thursday August 06, 2009 @03:55PM (#746264)

Okay. That doesn't change the fact that you can lock down Safari on the iPhone, in direct contradiction of your statement "The browser is far worse. And not restricted."

Again, I agree with you in pretty much everything else you're saying. I just think its stupid to pretend like Apple is evil for this particular alleged hypocrisy - "Oh noes, they let kids look at porn without restriction in Safari but ban my dirty word dictionary!" - when their real fuckups are already sufficiently bad.

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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by ivankirigin on Thursday August 06, 2009 @06:13PM (#746534)

Apple is doing the filtering in the app store. People do the filtering on the browser. That is an important difference.

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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by calambrac on Thursday August 06, 2009 @07:06PM (#746630)

No, it's not, at least not to the point you were originally making, which was that Apple has put in place a system of control for apps but not for their own browser - that's false.

Why are you hung up on this? I'm not saying "don't be pissed at Apple", I'm saying "don't be pissed at Apple for imaginary things".

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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by ivankirigin on Thursday August 06, 2009 @11:34PM (#746942)

I'm not hung up - I'm right. You do bad shit in your app, and apple doesn't let people get it. You do bad shit available in the browser, and apple leaves it up to you do not get it. It's the exact opposite policy.

If there were a parental control for the app store that blocked objectionable content, off by default, this whole issue would go away.

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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by calambrac on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:25AM (#746995)

If there were a parental control for the app store that blocked objectionable content, off by default, this whole issue would go away.

Um, that's exactly how the parental controls for the app store work. Apple uses the rating system to determine what apps are considered objectionable, the parental controls block access based on those ratings, and access to everything is enabled by default.

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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by ivankirigin on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:13PM (#747835)

I thought apps with objectionable content don't get in the app store at all. Is that not the case?

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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by calambrac on Friday August 07, 2009 @02:33PM (#748250)

That's not the case anymore, since the introduction of parental controls in iPhone OS 3.0. That should have been more than clear from the article, Schiller and Gruber both emphasize precisely that point.

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