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

Hey everyone, the campaign was a success! Just got this note from the developer:

> Hi!

> A while back, you requested and supported the rejected iPhone app, Pull My Finger. Well, we’ve been working diligently to get our phones to make strange bodily noises, and we’re excited to announce that Apple has reversed their decision… Pull My Finger is in the app store!

> You can see it here:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=289327939&mt=8

Make sure you fulfill your promise to download the app by clicking the above link. Would also be nice if you stopped by the comments of the campaign and let everyone know how you like the app.

This is a great victory for developers!

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

Hi everyone,

Thanks for joining – it’s extremely important that we send the message that the market, not Apple, should determine the utility of applications.

The blogs that covered this story yesterday are mostly onto the next thing, so it’s up to us to keep momentum.

If all 50 of us vote for this story on reddit (a site with many users sympathetic to these issues), we can push this story back onto the front pages.

Please, take 30 seconds to vote for this campaign here: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6zvd4/stop_apple_from_arbitrarily_rejecting_iphone/

Also, please add your words of support for the developer in the campaign comments!

Thanks,

Andrew