Bad PR Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Mark Fiore's App

cmiller173 writes with word from Wired that "After bad press over banning Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore's app from the app store, Apple has asked him to re-submit the entry."

Re:Wrong article?

[LostCluster]

Must have been a Layer 8 Error.....

Re:Wrong article?

[pitchpipe]

Bad Satellite Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Iceland's volcanic cloud

do no evil

[Anonymous Coward]

google's motto is "do no evil",
apple's moto is "do no bad pulicity"
and they both suck at it.

Re:Wrong article?

[aBaldrich]

You really read the article??
But this is Slashdot!

Re:App Stores Dept. of Corrections?

[WrongSizeGlass]

It seems like Apple is rethinking some of it's heavy-handed decisions ...

Naw ... they just want to reject it again to prove they were right the first time. Remember that "Think Different" really means "Think like us" ;-)

Re:App Stores Dept. of Corrections?

[Peach Rings]

monopoly on the smartphone market like Microsoft had (and has) on the desktop operating system market

Further proof that geeky time-travel-inventors exploring the future first jump on slashdot to see what's going on, and then don't hesitate to post comments.

Re:App Stores Dept. of Corrections?

[pigphish]

More likely the creative crowd/apple sheep don't think its "cool" to be banning award winning writers. This would also seem to be at odds with Apples "we are cool"/"you are fool" marketting campain.

Re:App Stores Dept. of Corrections?

[AHuxley]

Think of MS as the drug dealer outside your school or at a party actively pushing powders, pills and liquids.
The MS dealers also extinguish other drug dealers in the area.
Apple is more the gang suburb or crack house with a loyal following for a known product.
You have to go to them for the Apple "distortion" feel but other gangs and crack houses do exist.
You can always find a Linux grower and cultivate your own digital escape using Nordic tech.

Re:DOJ getting tough on monopolies

[masmullin]

They lied.

I'm Continually Surprised...

[Nom du Keyboard]

I'm continually surprised by how much crap everyone is willing to put up with from Apple, while worshiping the ground that Steve Jobs walks on. The same guy who actually had to leave Apple before we got an Open Mac. How long before SJ starts selling once-worn mock turtlenecks on eBay for a few extra bucks?

Thanks Apple for introducing me to Mark Fiore !!

[Go_Ask_Alex]

Never heard of Mark Fiore before Apple making a stink out of an app. Checked out Fiore's website and love it, can't wait for the iPad app !!

Re:Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

The best part would be if he "ridiculed" Steve Jobs in his first cartoon after the app goes live. I wonder if Apple would take the joke.

Kafka's app

[rishistar]

Makes me wish Kafka was still around to try submitting an app.

Re:Well unless one jailbreak's one's iphone

[Anonymous Coward]

Hold on... he has to write it up and put it on a site somewhere.