There’s this app called Camera+ that got pulled by Apple. It was pretty popular, but Apple still felt the need to pull it. Why? Because it allows people to take photos with the volume button, which apparently violates their Human Interface guidelines because it modifies the functions of external buttons. Pretty lame that Apple would do that since taking pictures with the volume buttons, or ANY button has been a feature demanded since day one. The strange thing is that the feature had to be enabled by the user. When Apple found out about that, they pulled it saying that users expect the volume buttons to only do the volume. That doesn’t make sense because the user has to enable the feature, so they know what it’s doing. To me it just sounds like a coverup for Apple to maintain their iron grip on the App Store. It’s things like this, Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails app, censoring Oscar Wilde, and censoring Ulysses Seen that make me question the App Store and if I want to continue supporting these practices.

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