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Comment What does this have to do with apps? (Score 1) 147

Every mobile OS requires the application to request to use your location data and be approved by the user. Moreover, most applications are not constantly collecting your location data, and even less frequently storing it permanently on a separate system. "Sending your location to every app you installed" is quite the overstatement.
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Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app 464

recoiledsnake writes "Another submission has been rejected from the iPhone App Store, this time for 'duplicating the functionality of the iPhone Mail application.' The author claims that his application allows the user to log into their multiple web email accounts and that Apple seems to be confusing Gmail and Mail.app. This comes on the heels of Apple rejecting an application for competing with iTunes and rejecting other silly but harmless apps as being of 'limited utility.'" ComputerWorld has an update to the rejected Podcaster app mentioned above. It seems the developer has used Apple's "Ad Hoc" service to begin distributing the software despite the fact that they blocked it from the App Store.

Comment Re:I don't see any stars is this a fake video of t (Score 1) 206

Well, considering good sarcasm has so much to do with inflection, tone of voice, facial expressions, etc, it is not always so obvious in plain text on a comment thread when someone is being sarcastic. I've experienced this myself in response to my own facetious comments enough that I've realized that expressing sarcasm in writing that is generally understood to be tongue-in-cheek by all who read it is not necessarily an easy thing to do.

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