With all the heck about Apple blocking and removing applications from the App Store there clearly are some things they don’t have a problem with:
In all the clauses of the App Store there has to be one banning mass-application-submission, doesn’t it?
Oh by the way: those “SpeedDate” apps at the moment fill about the first three pages if you sort by date so there are about 60 of them…
Some things just can’t be clear enough. Maybe that’s why Apple’s iTunes lists the current category in the App Store not only once or twice but under every single application tile:
Well… it might be convenient that apps in a certain category are all in that certain category. Just to make sure you know that :-)
By that reason those pages in the App Store containt the name of the category about 60+1 times. I call that: wasted space!
Yesterday there appeared a screenshot containig a nice localization problem in fscklog:
Christian in iTunes 9 - fscklog.com
So what’s the problem: the user who submitted this screenshot is named “Christian” – you’ll see the consequences.
Another cool thing that happened to me:
iTunes 9 Deutschrock-Mix
“Franz Ferdinand” in my “Deutsch-Rock-Mix”? Well, as well as two Rogers don’t make a right – two German names don’t make it German music.
By the way: Genius mixes is really awesome!
After following today’s WWDC 2009 Keynote held by Phil Schiller and more Apple of course had to switch the new versions of their site online. See some screenshots appearing on my side, (both Firefox and Safari involved ;-) ). Of course they’re all property of Apple Inc. (unfortunately, in this quality)… in my company we would say “there was a trainee on the website!”
You get the idea that it’s none of Apple’s business switching sites online every day (in contrast to my company ;-) )
Besides not making it very easy in answering licensing questions about GPL and compatibility with other licenses the FSF does a really great job in marketing the LGPL (Lesser GPL) on its website:
FSF advises to not use their LGPL
Imagine: a company wants to sell you a product – and the very first sentence about it would be “why you shouldn’t use it” – I think that really will boost sales!
Update:
Here’s the link to the site: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html