The Angry Drunk

Greetings from Éire’s driz­zly shores.

Unfortunately, this isn’t going to win me any friends; and may well alien­ate some of my read­ers; but fuck it, it needs say­ing. The big news in the Apple/iPhone media last week and this week is the story of how Apple denied App Store Access to a pro­gram cit­ing as the rea­son that the appli­ca­tion in ques­tion dupli­cated func­tion­al­ity built into iTunes. This, of course has been met with the usual hyper­bolic reac­tions rang­ing from approval to threats of mass devel­oper suicide.

Now, get one thing absolutely fuck­ing clear here. I’m not defend­ing Apple’s stance here. If this is, in fact, going to be Apple’s pol­icy going for­ward then the par­ties respon­si­ble should be hunted down and con­verted into Solylent Green until they relent. It’s stu­pid and short-sighted. That is, if this is an actual Apple policy.

See the thing is, so far, while I have read an ungodly num­ber of blog posts and news sto­ries about this, I have yet to read any­thing approach­ing the following:

An Apple spokesper­son con­firmed the policy.

Or maybe this:

When approached for com­ment, Apple denied the rumors and stated that a more defined pol­icy would be forthcoming.

Or

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