iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced 432
recoiledsnake writes "The author of iPhone prototyping tool Briefs has decided to open source it after the App store submission has been in limbo for over three months. The app had got into trouble for what Apple believes is being able to run interpreted code, though the author denies it, saying all the compiling happens on the Mac. While Rob stays civil, his co-worker blasts Apple for not even rejecting the app. Three months is nothing compared to Google Voice for the iPhone though, which is still being studied further by Apple after more than a year."
Re:Hey timothy... (Score:1, Funny)
You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.
Even stranger... (Score:5, Funny)
It strikes me as the psycho ex gf/bf who cant accept Apple broke up with them and refuses to mail order a new Android companion (or at least get a RIM job)
Re:Why really does Apple behave this way? (Score:4, Funny)
slashdot mod: "Insightful."
*sigh*
Re:Hey timothy... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why really does Apple behave this way? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know about that. One is a filthy, disgusting habit that costs thousands of dollars every year and is only really done by wannabe hipsters, and the other is smoking.
I KNEW IT WAS A LIBERAL PLOT!!! (Score:2, Funny)
1) Fanboyism/zealotry. Apple has had a following for a long time of people for whom they can do no wrong more or less. A non-trivial amount of these people are in the press (Macs are big in prepress work). They just love Apple and everything they do. So when something bad comes out, they find ways to rationalize it away, or ignore it.
So we're in agreement here? This is yet moar evidence of the elite liberal media slant!
Re:Why really does Apple behave this way? (Score:2, Funny)
What even bugles my mind is the fact that Apple as a company is [still] a darling in many people's hearts. No bad publicity sticks.
This is due to the built-in smugness generator that all Apple products (and even some employees) have, one of its effect is that it reduces negative perceptions of itself and Apple within its working radius. The effect is easy to prove, simply lick the Apple logo on a device while in a public place, if people around you start to find the device creepy you have managed to find a device with a non working generator (caution: this will alert the fashion police and you might have to flee to another country just to be safe).
Rumours will have it that Jobs is currently using a beta of the smugness 2 generator which is capable of repelling gravity, and hence offer the user the ability to levitate and even fly*!
*Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) was onto this development early on when he wanted a propeller hat.