Nonprofits irritated over Apple’s ‘ban’ on making donations via iPhone apps

ZAGG Deal!“The nonprofit world is stewing over the ban Apple has put on making donations on the iPhone via charity apps,” Stephanie Strom reports for The New York Times.

MacDailyNews Take: Blah, blah, blah… Before we get too “irritated,” let’s just skip down to wherever the lede is buried and find out what’s really going on. Um, okay, here:

Strom reports, “Others acknowledge that allowing donations through apps might present challenges. ‘One of Apple’s major objections has been that if donations were to go through its payment mechanism, it would have to be in the business of managing and distributing funds and verifying charities as well,’ said Jake Shapiro, executive director of Public Radio Exchange, or PRX, an online nonprofit marketplace for licensing and distributing public radio programming.”

Full article, with paragraphs of cloying whining, here.

MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, Apple is right to decline to manage, verify, and distribute funds for charities. Sheesh, some people will find something to whine about no matter what.

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