Controversy Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iBooks Author owns your format, not your content

by Erica Sadun (Jan 24th, 2012)

There's been a lot of heat and fury surrounding the iBooks Author terms and conditions ever since the service was introduced last week. To boil the controversy down to basics, Apple has introduced a private protocol extension that takes EPUB to the next generation. And then they created a business ...

How Apple does damage control

by Chris Rawson (Apr 30th, 2011)

Typically, whenever something goes wrong with a company or its products and services, the company will try to head off a media free-for-all by releasing a brief statement that usually does only two things: it acknowledges that a problem exists and promises more information at a later date. But ...

QuickPick update in limbo for Lion similarities

by Dana Franklin (Apr 8th, 2011)

On Wednesday, QuickPick 2.0.3 was apparently ejected from the Mac App Store, according to a tweet from developer Seth Willits. A day later, Seth tweeted that the app is still in the store -- as of this writing that's the case -- but update 2.0.3 had been rejected, increasing his confusion. ...

Apple approves "gay cure" app, then removes it on 3/22

by Erica Sadun (Mar 21st, 2011)

Update: The app has been removed from the store as of 3/22, per CoM. Today, everyone has their knickers in a twist over yet another controversial app that Apple allowed into the App Store. According to the Register, an application that helps customers discover "freedom from homosexuality" can ...

Apple confirms some WebKit optimizations unavailable to iOS Apps

by Dana Franklin (Mar 18th, 2011)

The web performance enhancements included in Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, are exclusively available to the Mobile Safari web browser, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed. The optimizations, which double JavaScript performance in Mobile Safari, are not available to the ...

10 things that Sort of Mildly Displease PC World about Apple (and why PC World thinks Apple is Doing Well)

by Erica Sadun (May 7th, 2007)

In the beginning there was 'hate', or more specifically "10 Things We Hate About Apple". And PC World's Harry Mccracken resigned from his position when former Macworld CEO Colin Crawford supposedly put the kibosh on the article. Questions raged throughout the blogosphere as to whether Apple was ...