Everything is the fault of those damn neomircrosofticons eh? How you manage to bring your made up boogey men into everything is amazing. That said the fact you back Apple is shocking...shocking! Changes the iphone so it's not an iphone...uh...yeaaah. So the FCC is investigating Apple *not* rejecting the app because it was kicked higher up...but the app that wasn't rejected and is being investigating for being rejected, *if* perhaps Apple had rejected it...but did not...it would be because their iphone would suddenly be some other thing not an iphone. But they didn't reject it so the FCC investigation is just a big waste of time anyway? That right?
You are brilliant! On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM, TPiwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > Apple's response to the DOJ inquiry looks a lot more plausible than the > explanations proffered by the conspiracy theorists. In a nutshell, adding > Google Voice to an iPhone significantly changes the operation of the iPhone. > It replaces so many of the iPhone's functions that it left Apple wondering > if the result was still an iPhone. > > Apple claims that it did not reject Google Voice, but that it merely > delayed its approval and kicked the decision upstairs to a senior management > committee. They need some time to sort it out. > > In a sense this is like the situation when right-wing wackos edit a film to > meet their "higher standards" and then try to redistribute the film. The > courts have ruled this illegal. The creator if the work has the right to > control what is in the work. If the creator wants to issue a censored > version it is their right to do so, but a third party may not do it. > > Here Apple has to decide what is essential about their iPhone and to what > degree they will allow third parties to change the essential nature of their > creation. There are good arguments to be made on either side of this issue. > I can understand Apple being unable to make a snap judgement on this one. > > If the extensive changes made to the iPhone by Google Voice break some of > the functionality of the iPhone will customers blame Apple or Google? Who > has to make repairs? > > http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/ > > The best of all worlds might be to have Apple and Google work together to > make this work. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
