An opportunity to masturbate for a good cause...
Apple has banned the webcomic adaptation of the novel Ulysses from the iPad. Leopold Bloom spanks it on a beach while watching a fireworks display. And the world ends. I thought we got past this in the 1930s. This is like Prohibition for the mind.
I have no tolerance for prurient pigfuckers, so I propose we all go to Apple's headquarters and have a jerk-in.
Or you can call them: 408.996.1010
Or you can go to the website and explain to them that they beneath James Joyce's most rank shit and that their decision bespeaks ignorance, sub-normal-education, and pigfuckery.
HJ
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Or you can get over yourself and realize that Apple is perfectly happy to let you read Ulysses on their hardware but that they don't want to put a separate app for access into the store, which is hardly the same thing.
Want to look at the webcomic on your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad? Open Safari and go to ulyssesseen.com. Want to read the original? It's in Project Gutenberg, and there are a few apps to let you get at the text.
You -- and the other "protestors" who spring up whenever some nitwitted "let's access a website without a browser" app gets turned down -- are acting as though Apple someone magically filters Safari on their OS. They don't. Chill out and stop acting like fools.
HJ -
Who do I talk to about getting James Joyce banned from college reading lists? Let's get to the root of the problem!
Regards,
Tengrain
(Who was assigned Portrait of the Artist... every goddam year and to this day hates Joyce with a passion unending.)
I propose we all masturbate in Anonymous' house as well to protest them missing the entire fucking point.
Dude, we are going to be so sore!
HJ
There is no fucking point.
Now, if you were complaining because Apple had cut off something that isn't available in any other form on the iPhone, then you'd have a point. Although it would still be Apple's legitimate right to make that decision -- they run the store, and there is no law requiring a store to stock every possible good in existence -- you might be correct to say they were being shortsighted.
In this case, though, we're talking about something which the newly- (and stupidly-) renamed iOS already has. I checked on my iPod Touch; I was able both to download the original text of Ulysses within Stanza (which is just one e-reader program, and not even Apple's own) entirely for free and I was also able to view the first few pages (I didn't bother to go any further because I don't even like the original book) of the webcomic entirely for free and using software provided by Apple. So, er, what was the point of the complaint again? Someone not being able to clog up the app store -- which already has way too much crapware, since it's a lot more popular to develop for than any other mobile platform -- with an app that doesn't do anything new, and you're upset? Get a life.
Whoa ho, Anon. What is more cringe worthy, someone bitching about something so innocuous (I happen to be a toad fan and find this complaint, like you, inane) or someone who complains about someone complaining about something so innocuous? Some personality flaw compels me to shun popular diversions (hence my reading dedication to this blog)so I don't touch Apple hardware. But if I did this wouldn't even cause a hiccup in my moral seismometer.
Another thought might be that you could not buy Apple products. Vote with your dollars and all that. No such restrictions on Android, for example.
But I like the idea of a jerk-in, so I may do that anyway.
"Some personality flaw compels me to shun popular diversions (hence my reading dedication to this blog)"
The same thing compels me to write this thing!
HJ
This is why Android is a good alternative for some. Those who don't mind having the App Police deciding what can or can't go on someone's phone prefer the Apple product, and those who want an open market go with the competition.
The fanboy from the first reply probably should lighten up a bit.
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