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Apple Adds 'Explicit' Category for New App Store Submissions
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It was a shady and hypocritical move on Apple's part in the very beginning.
I'd like to think that this step is a result of that very backlash that took place after their move. Good for Apple. The argument never was about the right to have pseudo-porn apps. It was about maintaining a choice, on principal.
I'd like to think that this step is a result of that very backlash that took place after their move. Good for Apple. The argument never was about the right to have pseudo-porn apps. It was about maintaining a choice, on principal.
While I do not care for those apps at all, I'm fine with Apple creating an explicit category. I hope they make it an opt-in feature rather than a Parental Controls block that you have to turn on. I don't use Parental Controls on my own device, because it's for me. However, I still don't want to see that stuff.
What an odd choice of word. Where is this mobilization and uprising from developers, united as one in their protest of outrage?
(The MR'ers with the over-developed forearms don't count.)
I don't think it's a result of backlash. I bet this is what Apple was planning on doing all along. I give them more credit than that.
It's not a surprise that Apple tries to accommodate the contradictory demands of the public ("sell nothing inappropriate" vs. "sell whatever we want to buy"), but it's a surprise that they seem to have handled this case clumsily.
Good starting point, just find a strong way to make it secure from small children. Built in parental controls are easy to get around, but perhaps have a master iTunes account that the parents can make a subaccount for their kids or something.
I agree. What's the best way for Apple to get the public interests on the smut apps in the most efficient methods in terms of speed and cost? They have done this before, they are not afraid to do this. People tend to forgive Apple far easier than any other company.
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Why not just move the apps into this category to begin with?
Why not just move the apps into this category to begin with?
Hey, it's better than seeing Boob applications in the Lifestyle category (lmao btw). Now, how about some real push notifications for app updates from the App Store without having to open the App Store?
this is just getting really confusing. is it the result of all the people throwing a fit? or was this planned from the beginning?
I don't know, if this was the plan all along, why not mention it when the apps started being pulled.
And also why the public exception for Playboy and SI?
Either way, if this does reverse the previous ban, good for Apple.
Still would like a way to manually install apps that don't have to be 'blessed' by apple.
it's far easier for a kid to open up safari and look for adult content than looking in the app store, I believe.
Conservative or liberal, they'll all get exposed to it sometime anyways. It's much better to educate them and tell them the reality of things, instead of hiding it.
ontopic: why are some people complaining about this? this is the best solution, much better than censoring everything altogether.
I wouldn't call it throwing a fit. Speaking up about wrongdoing, yes.
Remember, the ACLU supports even the KKK's right to speech, even if they disagree with the message. Supporting a developer's right to make "smut" is no different, regardless if you agree with their content. They still have the right to make it, and do not deserve such clumsy and inconsistent standards.
Of course we don't need boob apps. We don't need bloody iPhones for that matter. We want them!
An app being crap has nothing to do with it being smut or porn.
Give users the choice. Moderate it, but don't ban it.
I've no respect whatsoever for anyone in the business of making money with the body of women. Apple is just opening a side door for the "dirty" content. But hey, the sign in the front door says "clean!"