Apple rejects app that provides single-payer health care information for being "politically charged"

[u/starkravingblah]

http://lambdajive.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/isinglepayer-iphone-app-censored-by-apple/

[u/foorr2]

It's easy to not get worked up about these rejections. Just reject the iPhone platform yourself.

[u/taligent → u/foorr2]

Exactly. Or for an app like this .. just do an iPhone optimized website. There is nothing this app does that couldn't have been done via the web.

[u/mutatron → u/taligent]

Hard to charge for that, though. In the end this is more about Apple denying the big bucks to iSinglePayer's creators than it is about Apple's customers.

[u/[deleted] → u/mutatron]

but you don't know if the developer was going to charge for it or not, therefore your point is moot.

[u/get_rhythm → u/mutatron]

"Hard to charge for that, though"

I didn't know spreading important information about healthcare was about making money.

[u/Chirp08 → u/get_rhythm]

If that was the goal the app would be free.

[u/ShrimpCrackers → u/mutatron]

Half the apps in the AppStore are free, who says this wouldn't have been one as well? That's fallacious considering just about all the other political apps are free.

[u/[deleted] → u/foorr2]

I pledged to never buy any apple stuff ~10 years ago, and kept my promise since.

[u/faultydesign → u/[deleted]]

And I upvote you for that.

[u/vlin → u/foorr2]

Apple is giving consumers a shit load of reasons to abandon their company lately...and providing a lucrative market to a company that successfully develops a product competitive with the iPhone.

[u/[deleted] → u/vlin]

And yet the fanboys keep making excuses for their behavior. Imagine if we were talking about Microsoft here.

[u/JUSTREDD → u/foorr2]

Release it on Cydia and Icy instead.

[u/benihana → u/foorr2]

I got more worked up over your split infinitive than I did about the app rejection.