waffle

It doesn’t take very many words to stand up for Apple for removing Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store for “surreptitiously” implementing AirPlay receiving. Maybe your arguments boil down to: it’s their store and they actually followed their own rules.

What is sad is that that’s not the major issue. If it were only down to “should Apple be allowed to figure out what they want to sell on their own store”, I’m not sure that there’d be much argument from anyone. That they’ve been inconsistent with the rules before matters, but it’s only part of the argument.

The meta-issue, the big issue, is that it’s down to Apple saying “since we don’t like it, you can’t have it and no one else can have it either (and if you circumvent us, which you aren’t supposed to be able to do, you are probably the scum of the earth)”.

Apple is acting like an asshole and a bully, and defending them by defending the things they are doing that are actually fine is disingenuous.

(Yes, Waffle will be coming back shortly. Consider this a first taste, but don’t think it’ll be entirely like it used to be.)