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Exodus International have had their iPhone app pulled by Apple
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Started conversation Mar 23, 2011
If Exodus International want to produce an app for Android, I'd have no problem with that at all. Android is an (almost) open platform. The iPhone and the iPad are not open platforms. When you buy an iPhone, *you do not actually own it*. You do not have the right to run any software on your iPhone unless that software has been approved by Apple.
So when Apple allows an Exodus International app, that sends the message that Apple approves of Exodus International. And that wouldn't be a problem either, if Apple was like Amazon, selling anything it can get its hands on. Amazon is happy to sell anti-gay books, and gay books, and there's no hypocrisy involved there. They sell anything. Apple, by contrast, is quite restrictive. They blocked VLC Media Player (which is only the best on the planet) because of incompatibilities between the GNU GPL and the iPhone ToS. They block a lot of stuff, for a lot of reasons. They block pornography apps (Playboy has an iPhone app ... for the articles).
So when Apple allows an Exodus International app, that sends the message that Apple approves of Exodus International. And I think that encouraging Apple to change their mind is no bad thing.
TRiG.
Exodus International have had their iPhone app pulled by Apple
KB Posted Mar 23, 2011
They are complaining about Apple being "anti-diversity" for removing it. Kinda sucks when you're on the other end of it, hmm? 
Exodus International have had their iPhone app pulled by Apple
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Mar 23, 2011
Yup. The right does plenty of censorship itself.
TRiG.
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