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by forgotmypw17 2058 days ago
This demonstrates the amazing power of social media.

It only took 2-3 hours for one of the largest, most powerful corporations, to reverse their decision.

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This demonstrates the amazing savings of crowdsourcing appeals.

It only took 2-3 hours for Apple to assess the PR cost of banning the app and decide it's not worth the income increase.

This demonstrates that unless you're big enough to garner large social media outcry, you don't matter and can be trampled over by a corporation easily.

we have the law and court for a reason, and i think the public should have more access to it to demand justice and fair treatment. So that all entities of all sizes have equal access to it.

I agree, but would emphasize that the main thing at stake is negative publicity. If there's one thing social media has proven to be good for, perhaps exclusively, it's rapidly spreading shame.
I am afraid not.

Prior to the current Anti-Trust issues on App Store policy, Apple doesn't even bother responding to people out rage on twitter. Even if they did it takes days and sometimes weeks to get something resolved.

The only reason they are having such turn around time now is only because they are under scrutiny.