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iPad Lovers Just Skip This

By Posted by Alan Wexelblat

After the flap I created in the comments by implying that Apple would (and does) continue to treat the iPad like a gated Disney-esque community, I figure at least half my readers have already decided I'm too heretical, or offensive.

Which, in a very small way, puts me in excellent company. In particular, the cartoonist/satirist Mark Fiore has just won a Pulitzer Prize - the first online-only cartoonist ever to do this - but he's too heretical, or offensive, for Apple. The applet he tried to get into the iStore that would let people read and watch his cartoons on the iPhone (and presumably iPad) the way they'd do it them on the Web was rejected for "ridicul[ing] public figures." Well, duh. That's sort of the point of political cartoons, right?

Maybe I was wrong to say that what Apple wants to do is what the Cartel has wanted for a while. Maybe Apple is just fulfilling Boss Tweed's desire to shut those damned cartoonists up.

See more of Mark's work at his site: http://www.markfiore.com/

Full post as published by Copyfight - The Politics of IP on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).