Last week I released to the public my experience with Apple regarding the rejection of a campaign iphone app that I had designed to help get the message out about my run for Congress. Here is the latest on the iphone app front. My team did some research into the type of apps with political or social content that Apple either approved of denied and this is what we found. If your app derides Christianity, the app is cool with Apple. The example we found is an app called bible thumper. Here is a link to the info: http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/i-built-the-biblethumper
Another app that is okay with Apple is if you celebrate the life and accomplishments of a murderous thug as long as that thug is a devoted communist. Enter the world of iChe. The iphone app dedicated to the musings of Che Guevara. Here is the link, link to-ers (with apologies to Greg Gutfeld):
http://www.iphonenano.net/hasta-la-victoria-che-guevara-iphone-app/iphone
Here is the link to
bigjournalism.com with the story about the app and Apple’s boycott of Fox News because of Glenn Beck’s show: http://bigjournalism.com/hfontova/2010/03/30/apple-boycotts-glenn-beck-promotes-che-guevara/
Now, if you choose to deride a hateful theology that preaches the abuse and/or murder of women, infidels, apostates, and homosexuals, Apple says “shame on you” and let’s you know that you need not apply.
That is what happened when a creative mischief-maker submitted an iphone app to Apple called I-Slam. It is an app that criticizes the Koran for, well, just being the Koran and having an opinion, for shame for shame, on what the Koran actually says. Here are two links to Hotair.com stories about this situation with a tape the app creator made of his conversation with Apple’s app approval (sic) politburo official that he turned into a youtube video: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/20/too-bad-to-check-apple-bans-app-that-criticizes-the-koran/#comments
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/20/and-the-winner-of-reasons-everybody-draw-mohammed-day-contest-is/
So, with all of this going on, I think we can clearly see a pattern emerging here. If you are a lefty, a commie, a radical muslim, an enviro-statist greenie or a Democrat party candidate with socialist/statist leanings that you wish to share far and wide, then have at it and create something for the itunes app store. But if you are a conservative who possesses dangerous notions like you love America, worship a just and forgiving God or are in support of our troops when they go to war against the enemies of free people, Apple says you need not apply.
I guess I should have done this research before I hired a team to build an iphone app for my campaign. Silly me. Here is the link to the original story of my experience with Apple just in case you are not familiar with it yet: http://www.aridavidforcongress.com/RecentNews/tabid/67/vw/1/ItemID/13/Default.aspx
Now it’s time for me to look into getting out of my two year ATT commitment and pricing out the Droid. Did you know that Verizon has better coverage and their color is red? Just like California’s 30th district will be in November after I defeat Henry Waxman.
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