It's not totally surprising, given how Apple's App Review Guidelines already state that "apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected" (emphasis mine). It's strange that they would actually filter 'jailbreak' out though.
Oh wow they actually went and made that official now? Christ Apple, every time I come up with something that they might be doing in the future it turns out they're doing it worse than expected right now.
There's no excuse whatsoever for that sort of censorship, it's purely anticompetitive. Good job they didn't grab the whole market when they had the chance.
There are plenty of terrible Apple policies, but I hardly think that disallowing free advertising for competitors on Apple's own platform is uncalled-for censorship. Would you make similar claims on ABC for not running ads for shows on CBS?
Oops. Frankly, I don't know how I missed that. This leads to me believe that it was a mistake on Apple's part to censor "jailbreak" in everything outside of apps. Even then, it's a pretty inane decision. Apple won't approve any jailbreak apps in the first place, so why the censorship?
The podcasts and iTunes U are affected by this as well, so it means that Apple stop people from finding content that talks or teaches about jailbreaking as well.
I'm happy to give Apple the benefit of the doubt here, maybe it was one individual working on their own and not part of some "company policy", but I don't really see how you can "mistakenly" add a word to a dictionary.
I suspect someone at Apple is snarking surreptitiously, and making an unauthorized statement about how "jail breaking" is a dirty word at Apple, by adding it to the list of expletives Apple probably uses on the site.
You can still search for the term, and matches still come up, even if the word is "censored". Which is a pretty ineffective way of blocking people from finding things that mention 'jailbreak'.
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There's no excuse whatsoever for that sort of censorship, it's purely anticompetitive. Good job they didn't grab the whole market when they had the chance.
Emphasis mine.
Further proof: http://db.tt/OTqocIJJ (apologies, commenting via mobile.)
Really, considering their strict policies and controlling nature how could this be a surprise let alone a mistake?
Side note: Why are the post that are giving apple the benefit of the doubt of this being a mistake getting downvoted? Really guys?
You can still search for the term, and matches still come up, even if the word is "censored". Which is a pretty ineffective way of blocking people from finding things that mention 'jailbreak'.