Apple Rejects Drone Strike App 234
eldavojohn writes "Developer Josh Begley, a student at Clay Shirky's NYU Media Lab, created an application called Drones+ that allows users to track U.S. drone strikes on a map of Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Far from innovative, the app in question merely relays and positions strikes as available from the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism. First Apple rejected the application claiming it was 'not useful or entertaining enough,' then it was rejected for hiding a corporate logo. And the latest reason for objection is that Begley's content is 'objectionable and crude' and 'that many audiences would find [it] objectionable." Begley's at a loss for how to change information on a map. He's not showing images of the drone strikes nor even graphically describing the strikes. From the end of the article, 'The basic idea was to see if he could get App Store denizens a bit more interested in the U.S.' secretive, robotic wars, with information on those wars popping up on their phones the same way an Instagram comment or retweet might. Instead, Begley's thinking about whether he'd have a better shot making the same point in the Android Market.'"
Of course they rejected it! (Score:5, Funny)
A Drone Strike app which can't initiate strikes is like an email client which can't send email.
Apple deserves our thanks for keeping unfinished apps out of the App Store.
obviously (Score:5, Funny)
The big new "magical" feature in the upcoming iPhone 5 is the ability to track drone strikes.
Re:app vs act(uality ) (Score:4, Funny)
Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
The problem is of course the current namby-pamby nanny-state commie liberal president you've got, who insists on signing every drone death warrant personally.
A real red blooded conservative president, who upheld the US citizen's right to bear arms properly, would allow users of the app to kill foreigners with drones as easily as they are currently allowed to kill fellow Americans with handguns.
Re:app vs act(uality ) (Score:1, Funny)
Why do we need to know that you "Posted from a 17" macbook pro." ?
Does it make the fonts look different on my screen or something?