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by ahoyhere 5856 days ago
1. Pulse includes NYT as a preset in the feed reader

2. Apple shows off Pulse at WWDC

3. Pulse gets download 35,000 times, delivering the (limited) NYT feed to 35,000 eyeballs who might not otherwise check it out regularly

4. NYT forces Apple to take down Pulse.

It's not an issue of misuse of content. It is a preset. Pulse is not SELLING the NYT's content, they are including the feed URL as one of several defaults in their multi-purpose feed reader because they think it's nice and their audience will like it.

Now the app will go back online... and get many more sales because of this exposure... and all those new eyeballs will have to exert EFFORT to view the NYT's feeds.

Say it with me, HNers... s-t-u-p-i-d.
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danh 5856 days ago
5. Pulse mysteriously appears again in App store, without explanation.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/pulse-ipad-2/

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ugh 5856 days ago
And nothing seems to have changed. The developers don’t know why it’s back and the screenshots still show the New York Times.

Curious story. If there’s one good thing about this whole thing, than it’s that a lot more people now know about this app and will maybe even buy it.

My little theory is that the New York Times saw the bad press rolling in and called up Apple.

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farmerbuzz 5856 days ago
The fact that there is some set of companies that can "call up Apple" really turns me off to iPhone development. I certainly can't "call up Apple".
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megablast 5856 days ago
This is no different to any other company. There are some company who can call up Microsoft, or even call up people on the Linux dev team, if they know them.

This drastically reduces who you can develop for, and is one of the silliest reasons I have ever heard to not develop for the iPhone.

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akadruid 5855 days ago
Of course it's different. We sell and support (very expensive) software on Linux and Windows. If our customers thought the Linux dev team could stop us releasing updates, they'd be looking to migrate to more reliable platform sooner rather than later.
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CamperBob 5856 days ago
Well, you can email sjobs (at) apple.com, though, and get some transient Internet fame by blogging the snarky reply. That counts for something.
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