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SVT creates web site to get their iPhone app approved

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A Swedish programmer creates an app to be used in Sweden on a Swedish network by Swedish people. Everybody wants it, but they can't. One person far far away has the power to suppress the app for no reason whatsoever, indefinitely. What a great system...

It's an American phone.

Is it for sale in Sweden?

Yes.

And yet you'll find no shortage of fanboys who'll go to great lengths about how great the system actually is.

Do you mean to say that there are plenty of fanboys who will go to great lengths about how great the AppStore review process it, that is to say that it is without flaws?

Because in all seriousness, I haven't seen any. Even hardcore fans of Apple universally acknowledge that the AppStore approval process is broken.

Two words, choose your pick:

1) jailbreak

2) android

It seems the latest trend in application approval; Direct or Indirect ( in this case) letter to S. Jobs.

I wonder when he will fed up and change the whole process.

Great way to promote themselves. My first thought was "I gotta have that app" (had I been an iphone user). The execution is good as well.

Steve may not be able to approve it (assuming he uses Safari).

When I go there, I get the following errors in the Safari console:

XHR finished loading: "http://www.dearstevejobs.com/service/ajax/AjaxAPI.php. Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://www.dearstevejobs.com/en from frame with URL http://www.facebook.com/extern/login_status.php?api_key=0124.... Domains, protocols and ports must match. b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/z3C61/hash/7a40oc19.js:22XHR finished loading: "http://www.facebook.com/ajax/wallkit_get.php.

Nah, he just won't be able to connect his facebook account.

Poll on the site:

Do you want Steve Jobs to approve the app?

- No - Sorry, the No button doesn't seem to be working.

haha

(Full disclosure: I clicked on "Absolutely")

I didn't try the "No" button, but I was amused to see that you are allowed (actually encouraged) to vote more than once.

Chicago style polls: vote early and often.

Silly me for thinking this would be an article about Ford's Special Vehicle Team (the high-perf division responsible for the Cobra et cetera)

Not that silly, that was why I clicked through as well. I was quite curious to see what sort of app they made.

Hmm, the link suddenly started sending me to Facebook. Anyone else?

Didn't happen when I went directly to http://dearstevejobs.com

works for me.

not saying much for their app, when their site doesn't even seem to work properly.

Be specific! :)

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