We’ve reviewed your application, Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user community, and will not be published to the App Store.”
– Apple finds fart jokes and fart apps to be of equally limited utility.
If you think the market, not Apple, should decide which applications have utility, join this campaign pledging to download Pull My Finger if it’s accepted: http://www.thepoint.com/campai.....-app-store
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
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If you think the market, not Apple, should decide which applications have utility, join this campaign pledging to download Pull My Finger if it’s accepted: http://www.thepoint.com/campai.....-app-store
Posted by Andrew Mason at September 5th, 2008 at 9:44 am