Apple is paying close attention to the app offerings for its new watch. If your iOS app advertises support for any watch, other than the Apple Watch, prepare for trouble. Apple recently rejected an update to an established iPhone and iPad app because it mentioned support for a non-Apple Smartwatch:
We noticed that your app or its metadata contains irrelevant platform information in the app. Providing future platform compatibility plans, or other platform references, is not appropriate for the App Store. Specifically, your app and app description declare support for the Pebble Smartwatch.
Additionally, Apple has established criteria for Apple Watch developers that reject applications where the primary function is to tell the time.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @10:06AM
Thank you for choosing Apple Inc. WalledGarden8. Please leave any bags and unauthorized possessions at the reception and be sure you have your credit card and identifying documents with you. Proceed toward the security checkpoint and then the App Store proper. Please do not step off the marked path. Enjoy your stay.
(Score: 5, Informative) by hemocyanin on Friday May 01 2015, @11:50AM
1984 [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday May 01 2015, @12:38PM
Especially ironic from hindsight is the Big Brother speech in the spot:
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
Sounds like a very accurate description of the Apple iOS ecosystem.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @01:03PM
You forgot the mandatory cavity search, not that typical Apple users would object to that.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @05:34PM
Apple users are faggots and women, both of whom like to have their spaces filled.
Faggots chose that life.
But women, and young girls, they were born into it. It is what they are.
In afghanistan men still follow old testament ways, and the fuck little girls, filling their spaces.
Females have no honour because they are simply toys to be fucked, toys to be made to suck, pets, etc.
It is just who they are, there. And it makes them more valuable, because a cute little slave is what men want.
BTW: anti-systemders are scum according to Debian: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2015/04/26/anti-systemd-people/ [coker.com.au]