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500px's Photo Sharing App Pulled From App Store Over Nude Photos
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I'm thinking about using this thread as the launching point for the "Tatters Not Rat-a-tat Foundation" idea.
...not that I have a problem with guns exactly, but if I had to choose between one or the other...
Apple's strong arm against developers is really sad. The only reason developers (including myself) even really support iOS is just because there is so much money in the platform. Someday things like this will come back to bite them.
One of our apps, "Gun & Ammo Collectors", is currently in extended review because it has guns in it. Yet the app is solely for 18+ users who wish to catalog and organize their guns, track their serial numbers, and input values and other personal details. We aren't pro-gun, we are pro-collectables... and guns just happen to fall into one of those categories.
Their QA department is so overzealous it's borderline ridiculous.
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One of our apps, "Gun & Ammo Collectors", is currently in extended review because it has guns in it. Yet the app is solely for 18+ users who wish to catalog and organize their guns, track their serial numbers, and input values and other personal details. We aren't pro-gun, we are pro-collectables... and guns just happen to fall into one of those categories.
Their QA department is so overzealous it's borderline ridiculous.
Ethan
The Next Web says Apple pulled the app because they received complaints of possible child nudity.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/01/22/apple-pulls-500px-ios-apps/
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/01/22/apple-pulls-500px-ios-apps/
What. Naked people? On the internet???
Call the police!
I guess I can quit working on that 4Chan app...
Call the police!
I guess I can quit working on that 4Chan app...
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aaah so this is why people bother with these apps...
i always wondered why sharing on facebook or twitter wasn't enough for many people.
i always wondered why sharing on facebook or twitter wasn't enough for many people.
Apple said "Weve asked the developer to put safeguards in place to prevent pornographic images and material in their app."
And yet Apple sells an app on each and every iOS product that fails to prevent pornographic images: Safari.
These guys are friggin morons. Maybe all those years of keeping their mouth shut about their policies was to prevent their foot from entering.
Thanks for the lulz, guys. My guess is that Apple is going to just keep digging itself deeper into a hole.
Doesn't GTA have nudity? It's rated M.
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"We also received customer complaints about possible child pornography."
Customer complaints. That's the key. It's like how if some pedestrian dies at a certain intersection because a car turning right on red hits him by accident, suddenly, there's no right on red allowed. Probably a stupid customer complaining to a stupid app reviewer.
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Yeah, every time I go on YouTube, it suggests naked people to me or "how to breast feed" or "most profane video games" even though I don't watch anything related to that except for sometimes things related to video games. I don't want that stuff appearing in my suggestions when others see my screen. And if I watch anything related to a video game, it also gives me tons of Minecraft crap, which is just plain annoying.
This is the exact reason why DailyMotion's iOS app is castrated.
I suppose they had to do the same.
I suppose they had to do the same.
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