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Apple Computer supports the police state?
I consider DUI checkpoints 99 percent about revenue and 1 percent about safety. When DUI was invented the legal standard was .15, which by my standards is probably legally drunk. It takes me 5 beers to hit .15 and I would consider my self good and drunk after 5 beers. The current definition of being legally drunk at .08 is almost all about revenue. With me I hit .08 after about 2 and a half beers and I certainly don't consider myself drunk after two and a half beers. June 9, 2011, 10:18 am Apple Will Reject D.U.I. Checkpoints Apps By NICK BILTON DUI Dodger, an app available in the iTunes app store, helps people avoid D.U.I. checkpoints. After Apple announced its latest software at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, the company also updated its guidelines for new applications that are submitted to the iTunes app store. One of the new app guidelines, Section 22.8, says any applications submitted to the iTunes app store that promotes driving under the influence in any way will be rejected. The guideline update was discovered by the auto industry site AutoBlog. Apple specifically wrote in its new iOS review guidelines: Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected.The apps in question can be used to notify people when law enforcements have set up a checkpoint to catch drunk drivers. DUI Dodger, just one of these types of apps available in the iTunes app store, urges people to “fight back” against D.U.I. checkpoints. In March, a group of United States senators sent Apple, Google and Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerrys, a letter asking that the companies remove these applications from each company’s app store. In a version of the letter sent specifically to Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president of iPhone software, the senators said that with “10,000 Americans dying in drunk-driving crashes every year, providing access to iPhone and iPad applications that alert users to D.U.I. checkpoints is harmful to public safety.” |