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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 04 June 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 2 The latest silliness concerns an app designed to display the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) RSS feed. It was produced by an independent developer, with the approval but not the sponsorship of the EFF.Featured Whitepaper
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The exact same video is can be viewed using the Apple-approved YouTube app or Safari. Apple really needs to teach its vetting staff the difference between content that's packaged with an app, and content that can be downloaded and by an app. The EFF is using the affair as ammunition in its campaign for a US Copyright Office exemption that would specifically allow the jailbreaking of iPhones. That would remove any uncertainty about the rights of iPhone owners to install software that isn't supplied through the App Store. As EFF senior staff attorney Corynne McSherry put it, " It's none of Apple's business if I want an app on my phone that lets me read EFF's RSS feed, use Sling Player over 3G, or read the Kama Sutra." As of this writing, there's no sign of the EFF RSS reader in the App Store. |
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