“Last Friday, Apple banned AppGratis – which lets users discover applications for free – for not respecting its guidelines. AppGratis says it has 12 million users worldwide and generated 2012 revenue of 9 million euros,” Reuters reports.
“During a visit to AppGratis publisher iMediapp, French junior minister for digital economy Fleur Pellerin called Apple’s decision “extremely brutal and unilateral,” Reuters reports. “This behaviour is not worthy of a company of this size,’ Pellerin said.”
Reuters reports, “She added that certain Internet companies were guilty of ‘repeated abusive behaviour’ and said she would ask the European Commission and EU member states to better regulate digital platforms, search engines and social media. In an email to Reuters, Apple said it had had a discussion with AppGratis before removing it from its platform and that the company had disregarded its technical specifications.”
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Bemoaning the loss of tax revenues for her unsustainable, failing EU nanny state.
The French government’s budget presented (September, 2012), which is imposing a 75 percent tax rate for income exceeding 1 million euros ($1.39 million), is expected to inspire a number of wealthy French to move their residency to other countries. Even Jerry Lewis couldn’t afford to live there.
Gerard Depardeu (sp?) already left France for an eastern European country because of the high taxes. I believe it’s not just on income, but also on assets.
A real life “Atlas Shrugged” coming to a United State near you.
gawd help us all. time to wear our anti-psychopath tin foil beanies.
With comments like these I wonder if he will ever make it out of the title of junior?
Fleur Pellerin is a woman. ‘Fleur’ means ‘flower’ in French.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur_Pellerin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_H._Koh
No, I’m not suggesting anything by posting links to both Pellerin and Koh’s wikipedia pages! How dare YOU suggest…
/sarcasm
‘ ‘Fleur’ means ‘flower’ in French.’
Stinkwort smells better than this frog/toad.
Is no-one a Harry Potter fan here? Fleur was a crush of Ron’s.
poor Guy LeFleur…Guy Lafleur
Thank you for that – allow me to rephrase… 🙂
Thought I read it someone else taking the blame for the removal Comixology or whoever.
Bete
Maudit tabernaque enfant chienne
huh what, is this a French Canadian insult?
Corrupt, cursing childish bitch?
In Europe we play hardball.
In Soviet Russia, you get hard balls from Europa.
bitez moi, you fscking frog
Would you like Freedom Fries with that?
You seem to be on the wrong site. The bigoted porn sites are easily found by searching the internet with your favourite search engine.
I am a little slow here – Apple reviews an app and finds that it doesn’t meet guidelines set out in the contracts it has with developers who submit apps, and when it yanques the app, a French minister has a fit? Yet if I let some cheese go bad in my basement for a couple of years and then sell it as “Jeff’s Roquefort” the French will come screaming at me for violating some trade agreement that prevents anyone from calling cheese with green mold “roquefort.”
And would someone please tell me why so many products made and packaged in the USA for Americans have French descriptions and weights printed on them? A bag of lettuce has to be labeled in French fercrisakes? My box of Avery mailing labels? My bottle of Leinenkugel’s beer?
My attitude is for Apple to tell them to STFU and quit whining. It’s Apple’s store and Apple can grant or deny permission to sell whatever products it damned well pleases.
As Jean-Louis Gassee once astutely observed about a competitor: He is péter plus haut que son cul.
NAFTA… Many speak French au Canada.
actually NOT that many speak the old French of Canada — MacSmiley.
It’s just recognized as the Nations second language.
Yet the entire country must comply with bilingualized posters, advertising, packaging etc. – though the same does not occur in Quebec as they are more unilingual. Go figure?
…lettuce has to be labeled in French fercrisakes?
There are many French-speaking Canadians. Maybe they are more likely to buy our lettuce if there is information in their own language? They may even have legal rights to product information in their native language.
How American to be monolingual, what excellence it demonstrates..
Did it ever occur to you it was labeled in multiple languages because it is also exported and by having one wrapper in multiple languages the lettuce manufacturer has gained efficiency and reduced cost?
Now head-on back to your mouth-breathing, nascar watching, trailer dwelling life, slow-one…
[sigh]
You missed the point entirely. I’m not going to play the game of rebuttal with appeals to authority or my multicultural background or how many languages I try to speak. That would be pointless.
I just think it stinks when a private company does what it is perfectly within its rights to do, and gets shit upon by someone speaking from his ministry who thinks that what that private company has done is somehow illegal and wants to take punitive measures.
I’ll admit that I got carried away by mentioning the oddity of multilingual package labeling. I will not apologize for that because I think such things are unnecessary for items that proudly display, “Grown in Ohio for Ohioans” and because the lettuce gets shipped across state line, there has to be a French translation.
no, actually you got carried away when you took the Lord’s name in vain. have a little (more) respect!
@ j.eric: Are you serious? I don’t recall mentioning Lord Darcy anywhere above. let alone vainly. Go troll somewhere else.
There’s more to this I believe. AppGratis was heavily recruiting workers for a Paris office. I checked their jobs postings and there’s a ton of jobs being offered there.
So ya, France was probably excited to have some Silicon Valley guys setting up out there and are now pissed at Apple… even though at the end of the day… it’s just a damn phone App and the world will go on. And AppGratis broke the rules.
Maybe she should get a white flag out of her country’s well stocked ‘I surrender’ supplies and dry her tears with it.
Like any politician, Fleur Pellerin is just trying to boost up support for herself by “beating down” foreign companies and stirring up controversy.
agreed – exactly
The French government’s new 75% marginal tax rate – that I would call “extremely brutal and unilateral”.
Perhaps the French could focus on something that really matters. You know, like personal hygiene. Try using some god damn soap, noses everywhere will rejoice.
@ ‘mike’: perpetrating inaccurate depression-era stereotypes? How clever of you.
Now I see why the English still have issues with the French, and they are right.
The French cry and talk a big talk but at the end of the day they still are the little white Flag waivers of WWII, you think after all that time they would learn something.
GET OVER IT
I don’t think it’s wise to verbally attack the regular French folks, it’s not their fault. Instead, we should focus our displeasure toward the politicians, all politicians.
Chaz take : French or imbicile interchangeable
Apples has its rules and if any software house doesn’t like playing by the rules, F’em and the whining French can keep on whining!
Apple does indeed have its rules – but they seem to be selectively enforced. Why does AppGratis, which could be considered to be a legitimate news source (an app being given away could very easily be considered newsworthy), yet some apps that I have paid good money for bombard me with popups imploring me to purchase yet another app? It seems to me that notifying me of the change in status of a given app and asking me to spend money on an app are two very different things (the first being news, the second being marketing), but I wonder how the first is considered to be “promotion of another app” when the second is not.
Should have been “Why does AppGratis (which…) get removed, yet…” Sorry.
C’est un crétin