Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped

[LnGrrrR]

Or are you just mad that Apple chose to side with "teh gays"?

[boutons_deux]

Apple suing Amazon for confusing stupid customers with Amazon's "app store", which is Apple's extremely valuable Intellectual Property.

Apple should sue Amazon changed to Bamazon, since Apple and Amazon both start with A, again confusing stupid customers.

[Wild Cobra]

It went beyond a boycott.

[LnGrrrR]

It went beyond a boycott.

Please explain how it went beyond a boycott, when it, in fact, never even got to the boycott stage. Mere public opinion was enough to make Apple remove the app.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Free speech can be detestable. Those pushing to get an application that didn't do them any harm have no problem pushing their ideals on others. When free speech trumps over what other people want, it's sad. Makes me think of the Westboro church.

You honestly don't ever know what you're talking about, don't you?

When free speech trumps over what other people want?? Free speech didn't trump over anything, Apple's desire to keep making money did. Do you have a problem with free markets?

Hey WC, you don't really have to opine on every new post you see, you know that, right? I mean, it is within your rights to keep your two cents to yourself when you don't know what the you're talking about... Christ!

[MaNuMaNiAc]

I swear, I've never met anyone who writes with as much conviction on he's completely oblivious about.

[Wild Cobra]

A boycott is simply abstaining from purchasing a product. It went past that when there was an organized voice to have it removed. In the attempt to remove the free market item for those who might want it, the so called boycotters became dictatorial. A disgrace to the American ideals.

[FromWayDowntown]

A boycott is simply abstaining from purchasing a product. It went past that when there was an organized voice to have it removed. In the attempt to remove the free market item for those who might want it, the so called boycotters became dictatorial. A disgrace to the American ideals.

Nothing about this vitiates the principle of a free market. Apple, after all, was free to maintain the availability of the application or to withdraw the application from its offerings. It chose the former course, based upon the outrage expressed by those who opposed the application.

It could have simply ignored the outrage. It didn't. It seems to me that's precisely the sort of thing that the free market contemplates -- not just a free market in tangible products, but a free market in ideas that lead to those tangible products.

Apparently, you'd simply prefer that people just not be permitted to express that outrage. Talk about authoritarian.

[Wild Cobra]

I think all parties involved exercised bad judgment. What the . It's a free nation.

[LnGrrrR]

A boycott is simply abstaining from purchasing a product. It went past that when there was an organized voice to have it removed.

Really? Tell me how do people start boycotts then. Is it some massive psychically linked phenomena where everyone individually decides to boycott?

In the attempt to remove the free market item for those who might want it, the so called boycotters became dictatorial. A disgrace to the American ideals.

Honestly WC, this is just idiotic. The company itself removed the product because a majority of consumers were offended. You can't get a better example of free market works.

Hey, what about when that guy wanted to create a mosque near the 9/11 site? Was it a violation of free speech when people got together to criticize him?

You're saying that people shouldn't use their FREE SPEECH to criticize an app they don't agree with, and they shouldn't use the FREE MARKET to put pressure on a company to not sell a product.

[Wild Cobra]

I find it ironic how people can accept such intolerance.

[LnGrrrR]

I find it ironic how people can accept such intolerance.

I find it ironic that you're mentioning TOLERANCE in a thread about an app that was trying to convince gay people to become straight.

[DMX7]

I think someone here is really just mad because he wanted that app. I wouldn't say who though.