Apple Disables Promo Codes for App Store Applications with Mature (17+) Ratings

[anng12]

I think it's overkill on the censorship to have any app that connects to the internet to be 17+.

Look at it this way, you can get to so much adult material through safari anyway that placing all these restrictions on applications is pointless. Anyone under 17 that wants to find adult things will through safari.

But, then I realize someone made the point that you can block safari from being used on the iphone. Ok, but what parent is going to buy their child an expensive iphone when they aren't going to let them use safari on it? It makes the iphone lose one of its main features. A parent that was that strict with their child I'm sure would just buy them a lesser phone that couldn't access the internet.

Further, any child young enough to not be able to handle seeing some adult material shouldn't have an iphone in the first place. Parents should not be buying their 10 year olds iphones! Wait until they are teenagers and then maybe they can get one, and by that point, I think most reasonable people would agree a modern day teenager can handle seeing some 'adult' material.

HEY!

THAT LAST PARAGRAPH OFFENDED ME..
who said that 10-12 yr olds CAN'T HAVE iPhones?


People today are so over protective about this "adult" crap

 

[charlituna]

HEY!

THAT LAST PARAGRAPH OFFENDED ME..
who said that 10-12 yr olds CAN'T HAVE iPhones?


People today are so over protective about this "adult" crap

well that's the beauty of the system set up. Bodhi has the opinion that a 12 year old has no business with an iphone so he/she is not going to buy his/her 12 year old an iphone. seems to also be of the opinion that an older teen is not going to be scarred for life by "accidentally" seeing some naked boobs. so the 16 year old gets the iphone without parental controls turned on.

contrast this to my sister who got her 8 year old and 10 year old ipod touches (because she agrees that they don't need their own phone. on the rare occasion he go to the park with friends the 10 year old takes mom or dad's phone in case of an emergency). she totally put parental controls on. has them on the computer as well. flat told me that I'm not to let them on my computer by themselves unless controls are on. which is fine by me, they are her kids. if she wants, as she says, for controls to be on until they are adults, she wins.

 

[anng12]

well that's the beauty of the system set up. Bodhi has the opinion that a 12 year old has no business with an iphone so he/she is not going to buy his/her 12 year old an iphone. seems to also be of the opinion that an older teen is not going to be scarred for life by "accidentally" seeing some naked boobs. so the 16 year old gets the iphone without parental controls turned on.

contrast this to my sister who got her 8 year old and 10 year old ipod touches (because she agrees that they don't need their own phone. on the rare occasion he go to the park with friends the 10 year old takes mom or dad's phone in case of an emergency). she totally put parental controls on. has them on the computer as well. flat told me that I'm not to let them on my computer by themselves unless controls are on. which is fine by me, they are her kids. if she wants, as she says, for controls to be on until they are adults, she wins.

I think you guys are just weird

i hate parental control