The iFart developers aren't giving their proceeds to charity? Go figure.īehind the Magic 8-Ball I'm not the only one who has experienced these endless inconsistencies. Just as some PhoneGap apps slip through the mechanism, there are dozens of programs that give their proceeds to charities they can be found by typing the word 'charity' into the App Store search box. Once again, Apple can't manage to enforce rules like the one about charity with any uniformity.

When I told him that I rarely heard back, he just paused and said he was sure they would get to it. I could write the e-mail address, though, and he was sure I would get a response. When the kind phone caller with bad news asked if I had other questions, I brought up my big one about whether open source was really a 'private API.' That was too much for him to handle, he said. Fulfillment, yes, but its marketing reminds me of the GUM Department Store before Gorbachev, when any question beginning, 'Do you have.?' always drew the same response: 'Nyet.' Yet Apple justifies taking the 30 percent in part because the App Store is doing some of the marketing. The only way people can get to my application seems to be if I lead them directly to it from my Web site. Putting quote marks around it makes no difference. Typing in the name of my app title, 'Free for All,' brings up a long list of other applications like 'iFart Mobile - #1 Fart Machine for All Ages.' I've yet to find my own app after paging through the long list provided by the so-called search button. There are already 65,000-plus applications out there and it's difficult to find anything in the store.

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