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Friday 21 March 2014

Making an iOS app about Steve Jobs? Think different, Apple says

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Bad news, developers: If you had planned on having a mobile app take you down the road to wealth and fame, don’t expect to have Steve Jobs riding shotgun—at least not if you’re looking to reach Apple’s iOS App Store.
quoth steve
Quoth Steve serves up daily sayings from Apple’s late co-founder on your mobile device.
That’s the word from both Re/code and Cult of Mac, which told the story of brothers John and Grant Gill, who had hoped to build an app that served up inspirational quotes from Apple’s co-founder and former CEO. The app, dubbed Quoth Steve, would follow the quote-a-day model, meaning 365 reminders that real artists ship and that you should consider staying hungry and/or foolish.
There was just one thing standing between Quoth Steve and the top of the App Store download charts—Apple. The company allegedly told the Gills that it doesn’t approve Steve Jobs-themed apps for sale in its iTunes store. (Books about Apple and Steve Jobs that the current CEO has dismissed as “nonsense?” Sure! But not apps.)
Stories about comprehensive bans on types of apps crop up all the time, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they reflect a company’s actual policy—just last month we heard reports that Apple and Google were cracking down on Flappy Bird clones and yet, you’ll still find plenty of knockoffs littering the App Store. That said, Apple’s app emporium does in fact seem free of Steve Jobs-themed fare, though the maker of Do You Know Steve Jobs may want to reveal how that trivia app made it past the App Store’s gatekeepers.
At any rate, the Gills told Cult of Mac that there’s no hard feelings toward Apple, and they’ve released Quoth Steve in Web form. So everyone—the app makers, Apple, anyone wanting 365 days worth of Steve Jobs’s quotes in a convenient mobile format—got something out of this whole deal.
Still, you must understand how shocking Apple’s “no Steve Jobs-themed” apps position is to technology reporters, many of whom make an entire living out of Steve Jobs-themed content. (Interesting fact: “Steve Jobs would never have done that” stories accounted for nearly a third of our industrial output in 2013. [We checked. This is not actually a fact.—Ed.]) And it’s the app users who suffer the most—the poor, deprived iPhone and iPad owners who can choose from any one of a million or so apps for their iOS devices, but will never know the satisfaction of any of these Jobs-centric mobile delights.
TweetSteve: Post from Twitter with this mobile client that reduces the 140-character limit to 25 characters, so you can better replicate the Apple co-founder’s straight-to-the-point replies. (“Yep.” “No.” “You’re holding it wrong.”)
Keynote: Steve Jobs Edition: This mobile add-on to Apple’s presentation software comes preloaded with templates of Steve Jobs’s most famous presentations so that you can either replicate his spellbinding style—“Everyone, on any slide where it says ‘New iPhone,’ just pretend that it reads ‘Mid-Year Sales Campaign’ instead”—or steal all of his ideas for your own. This app would beextremely popular among Samsung executives.
What Would Steve Wear: Don’t waste valuable time each morning stressing over how to dress. Just launch this app, and within seconds, it will plot out your wardrobe for you. (“Black shirt. Jeans. Again.”)
How to Tim Cook Everything: The well-received cookbook app gets an Apple-sized twist, as Steve Jobs’s successor promises you a delicious meal sometime in the next 12 to 18 months. Sadly, the app is notoriously tight-lipped about what ingredients you’ll need until right before dinner.
flappy steve
“Someone tell Jonny Ive to pretty up these pipes.”
Flappy Steve: Well, it seems like the popular thing to do these days. Plus in this version, you yell at the pipes to get out of your way. And they’ll listen, if they know what’s good for ‘em.

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