Pretty much every time that news breaks regarding yet another fuckup with the iPhone App Store approval process I get a slew of emails and tweets prompting me to opine on the subject. In general I haven’t done so, not because I don’t have an opinion on the subject, but because I fear that my opinion would not be well understood. Nonetheless, I’m going to take the time now to lay out my thoughts on the whole sad, sorry affair.
As an aside, I want to make it perfectly clear that I’m not claiming any special knowledge regarding this situation, and I don’t think that John is either. I’m merely speculating based on what I’ve seen in the last year, and my own experience with similar processes at other companies.
John seems to argue, in his humorous way, that the core issue with the App Store approval debacles is the individual reviewers acting capricious for their own personal reasons. He writes:
I may expound on this later, but I just purchased a Canon PowerShot SD960 IS, and I’m loving it. Replaces my old A520 handily and also eliminates any need to by a Flip camcorder. Convergence for the win.
Just get it over with and call Sonia Sotomayor a “spic bitch” and be done with it. You know you want to, and it might stave off the aneurysm that you’re working up to.
There is much that I could say regarding the state of our armed forces, the way in which we treat our veterans, and the decisions that have led us to where we are now; but I wont.
Instead let’s take this time to honor the the men and women who have, and who continue to serve in defense of this country. Thank you.
It’s time for me to give back to the community. So I’m going to provide some information about a condition that has affected me personally, and probably has affected many of my readers: Evil Hand Disorder (EHD). EHD is a very personal disorder, so I’d like to thank the many anonymous contributors to this F.A.Q. Their courage is inspiring.
The technopunditocracy insists on vomiting forth articles about how the iPhone 3G’s camera compares “unfavorably” with point-and-shoot cameras. But I ask you, where are the articles pointing out the lousy quality of the average point-and-shoot camera’s cell reception compared with the iPhone?
Somewhere along the line in my diabolical plot to become dictator of the world I will introduce a bill in Congress titled The Internet and Water-Cooler Discourse Reclamation Act. The act will mandate that all citizens take a basic comprehension test. Those that fail will be implanted with a chip that allows then to only view reality television. That way I don’t have to read or listen to people inanely debating what happened on the season finale of Lost.
I may, or may not, expand on this later. But just let me say, watching the whole damn Twitterverse shit themselves over a year old story completely validates every criticism I’ve made about Web 2.0. Thanks fucktards.
As a proud drop-out of the institution in question I have to say, I truly doubt that the big O is shedding any tears about this one. I also have to disagree with the implication that this was a racially based decision. The truth is, knowing ASU President Michael Crow, Obama just didn’t offer a big enough bribe.
