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The full transcript and video is finally in (see below, begins around the 52-minute mark), and you can now judge for yourself. Did Steve Jobs call me a liar?
Um, no.
It's those pesky live blogs and paraphrased "transcripts" that fanned the flames of this story. My read on this is that, besides calling me a "nice enough guy," Steve Jobs was a little peeved that I didn't try to resubmit before the Pulitzer win. (As I stated before, the reason I didn't resubmit was because Apple said the NewsToons app would only be approved if it didn't "ridicule public figures.")
I'm hopeful that the "ridicules public figures" edict is no longer in force, but Apple hasn't come out and said one way or another. Jobs uses the "95% of apps are approved" line of response quite a bit--- which I hope means satire and political cartoons are welcome and will contribute to a bright future of journalism for Apple and for cartoonists!
At the risk of joining the ranks of Steve Jobs-ologists, his one comment I take issue with is that political cartoons, by their very nature, defame people. As far as I know, defamation is a legal description that goes above and beyond clever satire. You can get sued for defamation, it's very rare for a political cartoon to defame. Tweak, needle, anger, yes. Defame, no.
Let me know what you think or if you legal scholars out there can enlighten me.
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I still can't wrap my head
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Apple finds NewsToons objectionable, yet has no problem with the many gun apps that are out there: http://www.pcworld.com/article/168766/iphone_gun_apps_have_a_blast.html -- in Jobs world, it's okay to pretend to shoot somebody, but not to say mean things? Sticks and stones, buddy...
Jobs is peeved that you
Jobs is peeved that you didn't resubmit...?! He didn't reject your app....he rejected an entire art form of communication. HE rejected the very essence of free speech. You are right to not even bothered to resubmit.
Jobs needs to apologize to you Mark and set the record straight about Apple's free speech criteria.
It's the free flow of constitutionally protected speech either you do support it or you don't.
It's an easy question and easy answer.....for most, unfortunately not so easy for Apple.
Milt
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It seems like if they're
It seems like if they're changing rules, they've got to go back and recheck things. Why would you think to resubmit an app when you were rejected for something that you can't change... but as you say, Apple could have changed their definition of defamation.
Instead they added a clause to exclude political cartoonists from defamation?
And if they accept over 95% of the thousands submitted, that means they'd only have to recheck a few thousand apps for political content... So why didn't they contact you to ask you to resubmit?
What do the EFF have to say
What do the EFF have to say about this?
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