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	<title>Comments on: Acceptance of farting app shows Apple reducing strictures on free speech, commerce</title>
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		<title>By: Now there&#8217;s third-party Web browsers for iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-970030</link>
		<dc:creator>Now there&#8217;s third-party Web browsers for iPhone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] support iPhone app development” bullet in their anti-Apple chamber. Oh, and there&#8217;s also fart apps.  [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] support iPhone app development” bullet in their anti-Apple chamber. Oh, and there&#8217;s also fart apps.  [...]</p>
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		<title>By: You disappoint me, America: $10,000 worth of iPhone farting apps sold (so far)</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-962586</link>
		<dc:creator>You disappoint me, America: $10,000 worth of iPhone farting apps sold (so far)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to go, America. Since Apple loosened its grip on the App Store some $10,000 worth of farting apps have been sold. That may not be the reason why [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] to go, America. Since Apple loosened its grip on the App Store some $10,000 worth of farting apps have been sold. That may not be the reason why [...]</p>
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		<title>By: App Junkie</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-960686</link>
		<dc:creator>App Junkie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The ease of 1-click purchasing is not a good thing for me.. I&#039;ve already tried a few of the fart apps, including the PMFinger and excuseMe ones you guys are talking about. There are some cool features out there like timers and vibrate, but the excuseMe one had more realistic sounds and that makes the gag more fun for me at least.

When you think of freedom, Akuma, I hope the fart noises play the national anthem :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ease of 1-click purchasing is not a good thing for me.. I&#8217;ve already tried a few of the fart apps, including the PMFinger and excuseMe ones you guys are talking about. There are some cool features out there like timers and vibrate, but the excuseMe one had more realistic sounds and that makes the gag more fun for me at least.</p>
<p>When you think of freedom, Akuma, I hope the fart noises play the national anthem :D</p>
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		<title>By: Silly Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-960670</link>
		<dc:creator>Silly Sam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree the yurinator, but I found one called &quot;Excuse Me,&quot; which lets you push them at will all on the same screen. I guess they&#039;ll be adding some more features soon too, but we&#039;ll have to see. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree the yurinator, but I found one called &#8220;Excuse Me,&#8221; which lets you push them at will all on the same screen. I guess they&#8217;ll be adding some more features soon too, but we&#8217;ll have to see. :)</p>
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		<title>By: Acceptance of farting app shows Apple reducing strictures on free speech, commer &#124; official tech news</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-959318</link>
		<dc:creator>Acceptance of farting app shows Apple reducing strictures on free speech, commer &#124; official tech news</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Neurotic Nomad</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-958965</link>
		<dc:creator>Neurotic Nomad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...so in essence the app got rejected because Apple didn&#039;t have time for it.

Secret first draft of the Pull My Finger rejection letter: 

We don&#039;t know where to put your app. We have tens of thousands of apps to review, we can&#039;t leave you hanging until we do figure out where to put it, and we certainly can&#039;t give the impression that we&#039;re in over our heads, so:  Rejection with a lame excuse. 

We&#039;ll choose: Inappropriate. 

You know the excuse is lame, we know it&#039;s lame, but we are forbidden to discuss future plans, so I can&#039;t tell you that submitting the app again later will get you in... so you must toil until you figure it out yourself. 

We do this so our competitors can&#039;t steal the subtle nuances in the way we&#039;ll implement the features of a new or improved product or service (and not to kill our current product or service).  Our policy: Deny, deny, deny.   If that doesn&#039;t work, we spout the company line: We don&#039;t discuss unreleased products or services. 

If you try again and again, you will eventually find that there&#039;s a category for your app, and an acceptance letter in your inbox.   Your reward for trusting that we&#039;d do the right thing eventually, even if we have to do it in an asstastic way, will be owning your category, at least for a while.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;so in essence the app got rejected because Apple didn&#8217;t have time for it.</p>
<p>Secret first draft of the Pull My Finger rejection letter: </p>
<p>We don&#8217;t know where to put your app. We have tens of thousands of apps to review, we can&#8217;t leave you hanging until we do figure out where to put it, and we certainly can&#8217;t give the impression that we&#8217;re in over our heads, so:  Rejection with a lame excuse. </p>
<p>We&#8217;ll choose: Inappropriate. </p>
<p>You know the excuse is lame, we know it&#8217;s lame, but we are forbidden to discuss future plans, so I can&#8217;t tell you that submitting the app again later will get you in&#8230; so you must toil until you figure it out yourself. </p>
<p>We do this so our competitors can&#8217;t steal the subtle nuances in the way we&#8217;ll implement the features of a new or improved product or service (and not to kill our current product or service).  Our policy: Deny, deny, deny.   If that doesn&#8217;t work, we spout the company line: We don&#8217;t discuss unreleased products or services. </p>
<p>If you try again and again, you will eventually find that there&#8217;s a category for your app, and an acceptance letter in your inbox.   Your reward for trusting that we&#8217;d do the right thing eventually, even if we have to do it in an asstastic way, will be owning your category, at least for a while.</p>
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		<title>By: Cyber Akuma</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-958919</link>
		<dc:creator>Cyber Akuma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great, now a fart is the sound that is going to come to mind when I think of the word &quot;freedom&quot;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great, now a fart is the sound that is going to come to mind when I think of the word &#8220;freedom&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: theyurinator</title>
		<link>http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/13/acceptance-of-farting-app-shows-apple-reducing-strictures-on-free-speech-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-958887</link>
		<dc:creator>theyurinator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Pull My Finger is great. I only wish you could click the icons and make the fart sounds rather than the way they have it now. Then, I would be able to make music with farts!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Pull My Finger is great. I only wish you could click the icons and make the fart sounds rather than the way they have it now. Then, I would be able to make music with farts!</p>
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