Once again Tom's reason wins out. Child porn is why apple won't allow Opera to put a web browser on the iPhone.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM, TPiwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:15 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > >> The lawyers are either employees >> or consultants. They do not run Apple Corp. unless something is rotten in >> Cupertino. >> > > I've written about imperial IT, many corps have the same problem with > Legal. Management does not understand the law and gives Legal free reign. > Many nutty things happen. Many people sue Apple over the most trivial > things. I can see Apple erring on the side of safety. Legal won't be put in > its place until it becomes very apparent that it is doing severe damage. > Even then a compromise may be hard to find. > > Consider what would happen to Apple if an uncontrolled App Store started > distributing apps that showed child porn. > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
