Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Dark Horse Comics App Goes the Way of the Sony eReader

Emily the Strange: Lost, Dark and Bored, Volume 1 (Emily the Strange: Dark Horse Comics) (Vol 1)
Emily wishes for Apple approval.
Back to the drawing board for Dark Horse as the comic publishing company's app was rejected from Apple.  The reason for the rejection is close to the same as the Sony eReader apps rejection:  The app must not sell products from within the that are not also available to be sold from Itunes, Apple's digital store, or have a link to the store in the app or some such legal mumbo jumbo.  Dark Horse's original plan was to sell their comics digitally at a discount to consumers.  While still able to do that, the sometimes dickish behavior of Apple cuts out a wide portion of the market, as well as makes them eat months of development.  In conclusion, Apple, I say unto thee:  "Com'on."  I might use your products more if they had more stuff I liked on them.

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