There are books that have pictures full of naked children that are published by major publishing houses, and there are people who picket and protest national chains who carry them.
Also, when the first wave of popular anime started coming over to the US, they decided they needed to change the age of many of the high-school-aged characters (or older characters who had relationships with high-school aged girls, specifically) because, shockingly, sometimes in literature people do things that not everyone might approve of.
It's not so rosy a picture of free-from-censored-influences with regards to art in the US as you appear to believe it is.
Not so fast, read the arbitration clause.
Companies like to make people think that once you agree to a contract with ah arbitration clause, that you've got no recourse. Same with companies that have you "sign a release" and other such things.
Fortunately, (and their legal department knows this), that's not necessarily the case.
Yeahhh, but in a variety of situations it was stated that, at least on Earth, they don't use currency, and that accumulation of wealth isn't really necessary anymore because pretty much anything you could want is easily obtainable (hey, I dunno man, ask Picard and Kirk).
It's true that in much of the rest of the galaxy there are various forms of currency, but not everyone is the same as the Earthlings, so *shrug*
Sucks to be you. Don't write for iStuff.
I kind of agree with you on this. The blurb quoted basically reads to me as "there isn't an easy alternative that allows me to do almost no marketing in order to have people buy my app."
While I sympathize with the author(s)' feeling that the AppStore's rules border on the completely arbitrary, there *are* alternatives, just not brain-dead, no-work easy alternatives.
PHBs will perhaps base their decisions on the shininess of the product rather than the shininess of the brochure. It's a step in the right direction: it gets the PHBs looking at the actual product.
Your reply is one of the few who got the point of my response. I don't think PHBs will qualitatively change any time soon.
Consumer tastes have overtaken the perceived needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.
There, fixed that for you. The day of the PHB making decisions based on the novelty of the promo mugs and pens they just received is coming to an end. Thank god.
That's pretty funny, and it seems like you actually believe it, too.
Mainly because general end users don't want a desktop OS in a slate form factor.
There are some domains where a desktop OS tablet is very desirable.
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
