15 things Apple won’t let you see. Mark Morford

Do you want to know what it’s like?

It’s like being dipped in bittersweet chocolate and run over by five million very bored army ants. It’s like sinning against a strange and indifferent God and then realizing there is no god and sin is just an overweight, scared Labradoodle that’s afraid of the water. It’s like banging your head repeatedly against a wall made of cotton balls and heavy sighs and lead.

It is, in turns, a fascinating and infuriating process, getting an innocuous little iOS app approved by Apple’s overburdened team of App Store approvers, people who, since no one knows for sure, we can hereby imagine as an exhausted squad of overworked groaners perpetually terrified of getting the company sued and/or earning it any sort of negative media attention by signing off on an app that’s even slightly salacious, pornographic, offensive to Mormons, racist, sexist, repulsively violent (hi, NRA!), or invented by lonely Harvard frat boys drunk on Coors Light and pimpled sighs (Hi, Zuck!)
Looks totally innocuous, right? What could possibly go wrong?

Looks totally innocuous, right? What could possibly go wrong?

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