Reply #7: They delayed the app for Dean's book and the activism ideas.

[madfloridian]

http://agonist.org/nat_wilson_turner/20090929/apple_and_howard_dean_or_private_companies_make_bad_public_utilities

Many are wondering why? They delayed and delayed. From Jerome Armstrong

"I just went through about as terrible a process as you I could have imagined with the Apple iphone app store. It sucked, with their non-co-opoeration, multi-month delays, and inability to even update the situation for weeks at a time. So sue me.

WSG worked with Chelsea Green through a developer to bring Howard Dean's book on healthcare reform to the iPhone app store. The app is not just a book, but also an action kit-- the sort of ground-breaking thing that Howard Dean is so well known for letting his internet team run with innovating.

Unfortunately, Apple just squashed our roll-out plans. I have thought it was just plain incompetence of Apple that Howard Dean's iphone app (the book and Action kit) was being delayed for more than two months (with no reason why given). I resisted the thought that it was some sort of political delay by Apple. Well, now I have to wonder, check this out:

"Apple Denied Health Care App for Political ReasonsApple rejected a free iPhone
application that advocated a single-payer health system, calling the application "politically charged," according to the app's developer."