Apple: please allow "Pull My Finger" into the App Store!

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Andrew Mason Sep 5, 2008
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  • Andrew Mason
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    Andrew Mason started this discussion on Sep 5, 2008

    Hey everyone, thanks for joining this important campaign. We can make something happen here, but it’s going to take scores of us. Let’s make it grow quick!

    Here’s the invite text I sent to my friends – feel free to adapt it for your invitations.

    To all who care about keeping the iPhone platform open to innovation,

    Apple has recently started rejecting applications for no reason other than questionable taste, claiming they have “limited utility.” The iPhone platform shows a lot of promise, but it’s going to suck if Apple starts arbitrarily rejecting people’s ideas.

    I thought that debunking the “limited utility” claim would be a good place to start. Let’s get as many people as possible to pledge to spend up to $0.99 on this “Pull My Finger” application, proving a wide demand for this product they rejected and thereby questioning their fitness to make such judgments.

    Thanks for taking the time to join,

    Andrew

  • Peter Wong
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    Peter Wong replied on Sep 6, 2008

    I agree with you that if Apple should not reject applications based on what they think is right… and using silly rejection like “limited utilities”, are just stupid… if one apps is not suitablt because it has limited functions and appeals to the iphone user based… then most of the apps on the apps store should be removed from the site as well… including the not so useful blackjack games created by apple themselves… or those VNC program (how many people beside geeks use them?)… I think users should have the right to decide what they think is useful or not on their iphone… I myself think Pull My Finger will be a lot of fun, especially if I am with a bunch of friends in a bar or something… so Apple rejecting Pull My Finger from the apps store is just silly… it also undermines and threaten the feasibility of the apps store because developers will now have to think twice before they spend money developing on the iphone platform.