[melvinram]

They are not charging extra for the app so it's not "to make a few extra bucks."

They are attempting to do the best job they can for their customers. Depriving your customers because you want to take a principled stand by taking steps that is almostly completely guaranteed to not work just makes no business sense.

[drcube]

So they're going to play censor for "business sense" but it's not about money?

Morals outrank money. And it's not even economically a bad decision on a long enough time scale. What's going to make your company look the best ten years from now? Taking a principled stand against censors, on behalf of your users, while maintaining your product's integrity and vision? Or sacrificing your product in order to temporarily gain a few more IOS users, while Apple continues to make themselves look like malevolent idiots?

If I were a business owner, I know what I'd choose.

[kalms]

It makes zero sense to pull this app just out of principle. Especially when it wouldn't matter to Apple anyway - It would only hurt Treehouse, and the investment they made. The kind of change you're looking for needs to come from policy makers.