Insanity: Apple Rejects Podcatching App Because It Has Flattr Integration
One purpose for which micropayment solution Flattr (which we use here on Techdirt) has certainly caught on is providing a way for people to support podcasts. Apparently, simple integration allowing...
View ArticleUnfortunate: Craigslist Continues To Be A Walled Garden
For many years I’ve been a big supporter of Craigslist, both as a user and an observer of innovative businesses. I’ve even argued that the company itself is too modest in pretending that it isn’t a...
View ArticleiNanny: Apple Takes Down Popular Photo Apps Because They Made Searching For...
We've written here before about Apple's autocratic control of its app store, which has resulted in many questionable removals. To date, Apple has blocked a dictionary (because it contained profanity),...
View ArticleApple Threatens To Kick Out Comic Book App Over 'Adult' Content, Forcing...
Apple’s worked very hard cultivating its walled garden and it isn’t going to let a bunch of creators ruin its pristine utopia with nudity, depictions of sweatshops, nudity (again), swearing, topical...
View ArticleApple's Insistence On DRM And Other Restrictions Means EFF's New App Is...
The EFF has produced a new mobile app that allows users to access its alert center and instantly take action on issues pertaining to digital rights and other areas the group focuses on. And, it’s...
View ArticleSouth Park's Matt Stone To Silicon Valley: Screw You Guys, I'm Going Hulu
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have built an entire comedy empire on the back of free distribution. The pair first came to fame by circulating their animated short, The Spirit of...
View ArticleIndia's New Net Neutrality Guidelines Suggest Facebook's Internet.org Is Just...
India’s government has finally released the country’s recommendations for new net neutrality protections, and the report makes it very clear: they’re not impressed with Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a...
View ArticleApple, Arbiters Of Art, Say Game About Surviving The Gaza Strip Isn't A Game,...
Search for stories about Apple’s App Store in the Techdirt archives and you will quickly notice a theme. That theme is that Apple routinely appoints itself as the arbiter of artistic quality and...
View ArticleFacebook Is Not The Internet: Philippines Propaganda Highlights Perils Of...
We’ve talked at great lengths about Facebook’s pretty transparent effort to dominate the advertising industry in developing markets. That has come largely via internet.org and the company’s “Free...
View ArticleSony Studio Acquisition Of Nixxes May Portend Company Opening Up The...
Late last year, we discussed Sony’s corporate report on where its income sources were detailed out and laid bare the fact that the biggest revenue generator for the company was in gaming. We noted at...
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