Apple no longer censoring word 'jailbreak' among iTunes Store content [u] - Page 2

They haven't removed it on everything. I just did a search on my iPhone and sometimes the word shows other times it's ** out.  WTF indeed.
 

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Originally Posted by Rogifan 
They haven't removed it on everything. I just did a search on my iPhone and sometimes the word shows other times it's ** out.  WTF indeed.

It's called caching.

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Originally Posted by Macnewsjunkie 


jailbreaking is the first step towards theft. if you didnt know a jailbroken phone can download all apps for free then you are misinformed. I only repeat this to amplify the message: Jailbreaking is the first step towards theft. It is equivalent to disconnecting the odometer on you car, not unlocking your house.

Yeah, well I am aware of all that. If they find theft so appalling at apple maybe they shouldn't be stealing other peoples' ideas like the click volume to shoot camera. Anyway the idea to censor jailbreak a la j.....k is stupid anyway you look at it. What do you want me to say that it's a clever one? It's inane. Either don't allow mention of jailbreak in app descriptions at all, or allow it. To put j****k you just draw attention to it. Imagine if ms or google had inadvertently censored a thin lizzy song... Another stupid idea in a series of stupid ideas from apple lately. 

In the video, "Steve Jobs-One Last Thing," there is an interview where Steve is talking about how when he & Woz first started out & they built a device for phone hacking that would allow them to make free calls all over the world. Even as an older adult telling the story, you can see he relishes the memory of being able to do that, & not having to pay a cent for the otherwise expensive calls. How ironic that he builds phones & other inventions that Google, Samsung & the jailbreak crooks (his perception), copy/steal & siphon off money from him. It was so not amusing, that Steve was willing to spend every penny of Apple's wealth to fight the betrayal, theft & the economic hemorrhaging.

Wanting stuff for free is common to many. Having free apps in the store is fun, but articles say that many accessed your contacts. I've read reviews that said a $2.99 app should be free or $.99. Other handheld device games go for $16 to $40 or more. Just because people could download music for free, cheating the authors of their $, never made it right, no matter how many people did/do it. The desire for 'free' still exists. It requires a moral override at times, to do the right thing. Some have so much 'free,' they are morally bankrupt.

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Originally Posted by Onhka 

 

On (US) site now. Not seeing what is being reported above.

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Originally Posted by jragosta 


It's working fine for me now (the word is spelled out in full). Sounds like a glitch that has been fixed.

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Originally Posted by EWTHeckman 


Weird. I just tried it again. When I typed the full word "jailbreak" in the search box, the full word was displayed without censoring, but the search results still demonstrated censoring. I wonder if it depends on exactly which server you're getting data from.

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Originally Posted by jragosta 


Probably. I would imagine that it takes some time for the change to migrate through all their servers. It will undoubtedly be resolved everywhere soon.
Tempest in a teapot. I guess the Apple-haters have nothing better to whine about today.

I think the deal is that if you go directly to the albums (or search for, say, "Thin Lizzy"), it's not censored.

Type "Jailbreak" into the search box (note that what you typed was never censored, EWT, just the auto-complete suggestions), and those same track names are now censored.

You have to explicitly search for jailbreak for things with jailbreak in the title to be censored. 

That's why I'm still saying the most interesting take home is that this shows us how Apple's iTMS programmers work rather than anything particularly interesting about jailbreaking.  For those few who think this is protecting consumers, you're crazy.  You still find the stuff with jailbreak in the title.  It just has asterisks.

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You can expect anything from the obese apple corporate monster these days. When you censor something like this with j******k you attract even more attention to it, sheer idiocy. At least they 've not censored paranoid android yet, that's something.

Anyway why would apple have an issue with jailbreaking? It's their beta testing community and the ideas they don't allow they later come to steal (volume buttons for camera) giving the jailbreakers no credit.

There's a couple of reasons why Apple would oppose jailbreaking.

By requiring certification by Apple, it reduces the number of destructive apps. It gives Apple a chance to make sure that viruses or other apps that could steal information or disable your phone, even by accident, are far less likely to hurt end users.

It reduces the ability for end users to steal apps and content.

It protects Apple's 30% revenue stream on every sold app. Some of Apple's actions seem to indicate that this is a VERY important motivator for them.

I think it is even more important for Apple to protect the 70% the developers get.

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Originally Posted by eksodos 

I'm glad they did this. Apple is taking steps to protect their consumers from the underground community. Like others, I also don't believe this is real censorship.

You've got to be joking.

It doesn't matter that jailbreaks lead to app piracy - Apple must stand on the higher moral ground and deal with it the right way, and that lazy word filter (WHICH IS CENSORSHIP, BTW) is anything BUT the right way to do it.

I don't care if the goal was to block only apps, that's still a stupid, draconian move by Apple and every time they do shit like that, they are giving credit to idiots that demonize them.

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Originally Posted by JeffDM 


It sounds more likely a mistake rather than a glitch.

Agreed.  I'd be willing to bet that this is an error that originated in the IT department or very low within the organization (whomever has access to the list of naughty words configuration file).  The VPs likely only heard about it after the fact (and were pissed), and are now asking questions about lack of controls on such things. 

I can hear some poor schlub saying "but I heard [insert VP name here] say 'jailbreak is a dirty word,' so I added it to the list.  How was I supposed to know?"

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Originally Posted by EWTHeckman 
It protects developer's 70% revenue stream on every sold app. Some of Apple's actions seem to indicate that this is a VERY important motivator for them.

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Half full, half empty...

...whatever.