Drudge report is gone from the app store and the app is not working now so *** is going on apple?

Spoken like a true Apple employee

This is a user-to-user support forum. Apple Employees are designated by either a black apple avatar (community specialists) or a purple apple avatar (Hosts). The community specialists generally only reply if a post has gone unanswered for more than 12 hours or so. The Hosts rarely post in the forums these days.

Now, I will say, the last time I was unemployed, I did apply to Apple for a retail job but didn't get it. I'm a grants administrator for a small university.

<sigh>

Really? There are two possibilities here. One is Apple is censoring Drudge. The other is that Drudge pulled the App(s) for some reason.

If Apple are censoring Drudge then they're not doing a very good job, because Drudge is available on every single Mac, iPhone and iPad via the Web Browser. So, how is that censorship? Also, given that Drudge, like you, would love to whine forever about censorship, how come they have said nothing. How come they haven't complained? How come when other people have asked them what happened to the Apps, they simply haven't replied? I mean, let's face it, any whiff of censorship would just be a great cause for them. But they haven't taken up the cause. So, I know this is just approaching the question rationally (and I guess that's not a strong suite for you), but really there is zero evidence that Apple are censoring anything.

That means that Drudge have pulled these apps for some reason. Why? Ask them. They might do you the courtesy of a reply, even though they haven't bothered to reply to any one else.

You can do better than that

Yes you can go to your browser, but it involves more steps

Why do you have any app, it makes it easier to get to the program

Apple has some app’s that are not optional

They are censoring by removing the app

Thats their right, just like its my right to change phone manufactures once my phone dies

it a new phone, so it will probably be a year based on Spple quality

The “mystery” is to why the Drudge app is no longer available in the App Store. You have evidence but no proof. Just because the drudge people are not complaining does not mean they did it. I am still waiting for an answer. And I think this forum is where it will be revealed.

The “mystery” is to why the Drudge app is no longer available in the App Store. You have evidence but no proof. Just because the drudge people are not complaining does not mean they did it. I am still waiting for an answer. And I think this forum is where it will be revealed.

Can you explain why you think a user-to-user technical support forum that Apple runs but only minimally participates in is where this revelation is going to happen? Who is going to make it? Apple? Drudge? Trump?

More than 13,000 people have viewed this thread and another similar one. All these people are interested in this question. I believe there is an answer out there. And I believe at least one of the very intelligent contributors to this forum will find the answer and share it with the rest of us.

More than 13,000 people have viewed this thread and another similar one.

Incorrect. This thread has had 13,000 views. That could mean 13,000 people each viewed it once or that a couple of people viewed it many, many times.

All these people are interested in this question. I believe there is an answer out there. And I believe at least one of the very intelligent contributors to this forum will find the answer and share it with the rest of us.

Some very intelligent people already have posted answers but, because you don't like them, you dismiss them. Unless the answers are in the form of official announcements from either Apple or Drudge, they will be nothing but guesses and speculation.

My bet is there are legal reasons Drudge has not complained or committed on being removed

i think Apple believes they are so big it doesn’t matter what the customer thinks

just like when they killed off a lot of apps when they did an update, I lost a lot of app’s that I had paid for

they are lagging behind technology anyway, this is just one more reason to get another product

You are incorrect. There is evidence, but not proof. There is a difference. And I do not dismiss anything. There may be an official announcement, or perhaps not. But usually the truth does come out.

You are incorrect. There is evidence, but not proof. There is a difference. And I do not dismiss anything. There may be an official announcement, or perhaps not. But usually the truth does come out.

You already have dismissed the explanations given in this thread.

However, you can keep hoping and waiting for an answer to be posted in this forum. It's certainly your time to waste. Just don't hold your breath.

I don’t expect a reply from Apply on this subject

A lot of theories, but that’s all it is for everyone

Its up to each individual whether they want to support Apple by continuing to be a customer

I’m one who choose’s to go elsewhere

I agree with you and will move on

By the way my messages are being removed by Apple because they are not constructive

Seems like censorship to me

You agreed to allow Apple to delete anything they wanted when you register for these forums. Speculation, specifically, is a violation of the terms of use.

Yes you can go to your browser, but it involves more steps
Why do you have any app, it makes it easier to get to the program
Apple has some app’s that are not optional
They are censoring by removing the app

Ah, so being marginally less convenient is censorship now? What then is it when I have to leave my house and actually go to a Public Library? How much censorship is that?

We're obviously quite past the point of rationality here. One of the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory is its resistance to any other explanation.

If you want to stop being an Apple customer because Matt Drudge wont pay someone to write an App for iOS please do as you feel inclined but it is not necessary to alert the volunteers. In the mean time if you have a question about an Apple product or service that are not a suspicion about Apples policies feel free to ask it.

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Well, we could get into a weird argument, but I am pretty careful about how I get my news. For example, I get daily the paper editions of the New York Times, the Daily News, the New York Post, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. I am a regular listener to that right wing organization, NPR (WNYC for me), as well as lots more, including Apple News+. (Wow, this is embasesing -- am a news junkie?)

So here goes:

AMAZON carries the Marquis de Sade, Mein Kampf, Louis Farrakhan, and pro-pedophile books.

But bans Muhammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam, co-authored by British populist Tommy Robinson.

It banns Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique and Separation and Its Discontents.

WHITCOULLS, New Zealand's largest book store, banned Peterson's 12 Rules for Life, but carries Mein Kampf.

ACADEMIA. https://www.insidehighered.com has at least two or three stories per week on conservatives being barred from speaking on campuses.

PATREON de-platformed Sargon of Akkad. When he moved to another platform, PayPal shut that platform down. Out of fear that they would be next, Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Dave Rubin left Patreon, but they are still subject to bing shut down by PayPal and VISA/MasterCard. (Dave Rubin is in a gay marriage, but that is not enough to protect him.)

TWITTER has shut down, de-platformed, or shadow banned many, including Diamond and Silk.

So that led me to wonder about Drudge.