Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: While Steve Jobs was a devil, of sorts, at least he was a devil we knew; now he has passed on (presumably to do devilish things elsewhere) we are left with other, lesser devils; and lesser devils are like lesser gods, inclined to do things that are neither so good nor so evil. I

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Well of course they don't wnat anyone to use Dropbox, or Box.net or Google Drive or any other online cloud storage - it takes people away form iCloud. Is that too cynical? Not cynical at all; it's well within their rights to define their platform however they like. I ju

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Richmond
On 05/02/2012 03:52 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, I want to release Dropbox support for LiveCode soon but it appears that Apple is being evil again. It is rejecting any application that connects to Dropbox. Checkout the thread at: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=59350 And that is why

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Peter Haworth
Well of course they don't wnat anyone to use Dropbox, or Box.net or Google Drive or any other online cloud storage - it takes people away form iCloud. Is that too cynical? Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Thomas, > > There are r

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Thomas, Ok... Lets wait and see what further developments this will have... Cheers andre On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Andre, > > Brian from DropBox has stated that the apps that were rejected up until 4 > hours ago are using the old sdk and not the new one. > > -

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Andre, Brian from DropBox has stated that the apps that were rejected up until 4 hours ago are using the old sdk and not the new one. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On May 1, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Thomas, > > There are reports of apps be

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Thomas, There are reports of apps being rejected EVEN AFTER THE SDK CHANGE. It appears that Apple does not want users to be able to create Dropbox accounts from the auth screen which is bogus because they allow such behavior for their iCloud stuff. Damn. I wish Android would dominate the market.

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
That issued was solved by Dropbox for users who use their SDK to access dropbox themselves: > Here is a version of the iOS SDK that removes both the "Desktop Version" link > and the create account link: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/36domfjo6pz1ulf/dropbox-ios-sdk-1.2.2-b2.tar.gz > > We're lookin

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Dar Scott
A couple days ago I looked at a bunch of PDF readers and most that caught my eye have some sort of dropbox interface. (The weird thing is that I was searching with Safari on the Mac--touching a site here and there--and immediately my iPad got a message through the App Store asking me if I wan

Re: Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Looks like they are sorting it out. They just need to only allow free account creation if the client is iOS. Cheers Monte On 02/05/2012, at 10:52 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Folks, > > I want to release Dropbox support for LiveCode soon but it appears that > Apple is being evil again. It is reje

Apple being Evil, again...

2012-05-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I want to release Dropbox support for LiveCode soon but it appears that Apple is being evil again. It is rejecting any application that connects to Dropbox. Checkout the thread at: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=59350 And that is why I use webOS and Android as my mobile platforms