Official: Apple to reject apps that include DUI checkpoints

[aGameOfThrones]

In conjunction with this week's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, and part of the new approval process includes a section that prohibits the inclusion of DUI checkpoints in iOS apps.

Section 22.8 states:

Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected.

The updated terms come a few months after a group of U.S. Senators sent letters of concern to Apple, Google and RIM, asking the smartphone companies to remove any and all apps that would inform users of DUI checkpoints.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/08/apple-to-reject-apps-that-include-dui-checkpoints/

[Brian4Liberty]

No warrant, no knock checkpoints...

[ClayTrainor]

They'll still exist for those who jailbreak their device.

[acptulsa]

They'll exist for anyone who knows where to find the information online, too. Which begs the question. Does this mean they're going to teach the iphone to edit your surfing for content? Will certain sites that you can get access to on your home PC not be viewable on your mobile device?

[dannno]

There's an easy way around this. You can create a website that looks like an app, has the same functionality as an app, then link to the website on your smartphone's desktop. So you don't have to learn how to develop actual iphone apps to make an app available, but you won't get paid for it through the app store either.

Apple has been trying to do things to remove this work-around for creating apps because they have no control over them. One of those things included not speeding up javascript or something by 5x, only for websites opened from links on the desktop, for no other apparent reason. Apple likes to be in control like a really hot girlfriend who has you whipped and likes to be in control of the relationship.

[belian78]

There's an easy way around this. You can create a website that looks like an app, has the same functionality as an app, then link to the website on your smartphone's desktop.

Apple has been trying to do things to remove this work-around for creating apps because they have no control over them. Apple likes to be in control like a really hot girlfriend who has you whipped and likes to be in control of the relationship.

Heh... She may be hot lookin on the outside, but soon you find out she's packin some 3 day old sliced roast beef.

[acptulsa]

This is how incrementalism works, folks. They announce they're going to take ineffective steps to eliminate this or that, and since the steps are obviously ineffective no one stands up to be counted. Then they come in and say, hey, we did this thing and no one objected. Now all we're trying to do is the same thing only more effectively. So, if you had no objection before, you should have none now.

[Napoleon's Shadow]

I think Trapster allows you to both report and see other reports of speed traps, red-light cameras, etc.

[ClayTrainor]

Apple has been trying to do things to remove this work-around for creating apps because they have no control over them. One of those things included not speeding up javascript or something by 5x, only for websites opened from links on the desktop, for no other apparent reason. Apple likes to be in control like a really hot girlfriend who has you whipped and likes to be in control of the relationship.

Lol true enough. The day It becomes impossible to create alternative software for apple devices is the day I vow to never buy another apple device.