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Apple Now Blocking 'Overtly Sexual' Apps from App Store
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Damn it, now I want porn on my iPad! Never mind, I'll just use a web browser. Oops, there's no Flash!
I can imagine the news: "HP's PornPad outsells Apple's iPad, but iPad remains a bestseller among the elderly"
That puts 'mature content' into new prospective.
Damn it, now I want porn on my iPad! Never mind, I'll just use a web browser. Oops, there's no Flash!
I can imagine the news: "HP's PornPad outsells Apple's iPad, but iPad remains a bestseller among the elderly"
That puts 'mature content' into new prospective.
We cannot live our lives with this attitude. There will be always be poor countries and sadly - even within our societies - poverty is still widespread. Do I do my part to cure the situation? I think I do my bit. And now, I WANT MY PORN ON MY iPAD!
So violence is ok(Call of Duty), but nekkid girls is horrible and evil. What interesting priorities we have.
Apple needs to get their guidelines in check, especially with the iPad coming out soon, it's going to be a chaotic mess in the App Store... sucks to be the developer of Wobble iBoobs, making $200k+ and having Apple pull the rug from under you feet... It's always a love / hate relationship with Apple...
Liberal? You are as self righteous as the far right. Who are you to say what is acceptable and not? I'm all for letting my fellow citizens celebrate how they want to lead their own lives.
Well, that might be because iTunes isn't the only source for getting movies onto your iPhone, but it is the only source for getting apps. There's a very big difference...
If Apple wants to be excessively strict and puritanical (BAN EVERYTHING THAT ANYONE MIGHT OBJECT TO!), then they should provide some sort of open development channel. Let someone else sell apps that don't meet Apple's standards, using a simplified version of the SDK, or something like that...
Of course, we all know that will never happen.
I think you shouldn't have passed the bar, but have gone in and had a drink with the rest of the world.
So violence is ok(Call of Duty), but nekkid girls is horrible and evil. What interesting priorities we have.
Precisely.
Great pretender or virtual paper-lawyer?
Your reasoning is poor. Your point about the chauvinistic comment is debatable. Actually, I wonder which state you are from and whether you really passed the Bar exam.
"Don't argue with me on this - I passed the Bar" Ha-ha-ha! That's why I am fairly confident that you never passed any Bar exam. You are a pretender. Or can you provide any evidence? I actually can that I went to a British law school but I have to admit that I never passed the Bar exam. (I can also provide evidence that I have a masters degree in management.) Probably that's why I ever had time to visit Macrumors. You must be the kind of lawyers that BRLawyer is (or whatever the name of that lost soul is) virtual lawyer among teenagers, geeks and divorcees!
The whole common law is based on arguing that the other party's point is weaker than yours. The same applies to the Constitution. How many cases have you come across in Constitutional and Administrative Law (or whatever US law schools call the subject) about the Constitution?
i wish even so-called REAL lawyers in REAL life heard this! It's such a great sentiment and a funny line!
Your reasoning is poor. Your point about the chauvinistic comment is debatable. Actually, I wonder which state you are from and whether you really passed the Bar exam.
"Don't argue with me on this - I passed the Bar" Ha-ha-ha! That's why I am fairly confident that you never passed any Bar exam. You are a pretender. Or can you provide any evidence? I actually can that I went to a British law school but I have to admit that I never passed the Bar exam. (I can also provide evidence that I have a masters degree in management.) Probably that's why I ever had time to visit Macrumors. You must be the kind of lawyers that BRLawyer is (or whatever the name of that lost soul is) virtual lawyer among teenagers, geeks and divorcees!
The whole common law is based on arguing that the other party's point is weaker than yours. The same applies to the Constitution. How many cases have you come across in Constitutional and Administrative Law (or whatever US law schools call the subject) about the Constitution?
i wish even so-called REAL lawyers in REAL life heard this! It's such a great sentiment and a funny line!
If I'm locked into a contract with ATT, then no, I haven't got options. And if I signed up for this contract before Apple changed the rules of what I can and cannot download from the App Store, then there's nothing I can do but suck it up until the contract expires, hm?
I should think not.
Mature content = <giggle>Boobies </giggle>
Good morning world - its a lovely day to grow up.
Can't wait for the new iPhone ads -
"Buy an iPhone. Or, if you are a wanker - the answer may be found in the Palm"
Good morning world - its a lovely day to grow up.
Can't wait for the new iPhone ads -
"Buy an iPhone. Or, if you are a wanker - the answer may be found in the Palm"
I'm someone who knows better than to tolerate crap.
Quality control is not equal to censorship!
And while, in this issue, I might support the free speech of awful faux-porn apps, the feminist in me opposes these crappy programs for a variety of reasons.
Read Ariel Levy's "Female Chauvinist Pigs" and tell me if that's self-righteous too.
"Who are you to say what is acceptable and not?"
A parent.
This doesn't mean i want to tell you what to do, but it does give me an new slant as to what is helpful for a heathy development.
"Ever tell your kids you're glad that they can think?
Ever say you loved 'em? Ever let 'em watch you drink?" Zappa
Now, if they banned Ulysees, then that would be entirely different.
A parent.
This doesn't mean i want to tell you what to do, but it does give me an new slant as to what is helpful for a heathy development.
"Ever tell your kids you're glad that they can think?
Ever say you loved 'em? Ever let 'em watch you drink?" Zappa
Now, if they banned Ulysees, then that would be entirely different.
Yeah I'm not liking apple more n more when they have to FCC everything with iTunes if it's sexual just shut the front door and stop worrying about it verify your age and your clear don't worry you stupid parents and little Timmy son of a bitch won't see it. Thank god for jailbreak or else this phone be useless.
I agree. I never wanted to compare US and EU. There is of course a different mentality up so some point but still I believe that we basically are mostly the same, there are a lot of open-minded people in the whole world. There's (as with everything) a certain percentile of people who dislike certain thins and another (even smaller) percentile of those is shouting out loud to get what they want. Unfortunately, the restrictions made because of this tiny percentile affect all others as well.
And that's my point: I dislike to be bound to rules which are motivated by extreme voices no matter if me myself would even be affected by it. It is Schmalspur-politics which introduces an unnecessary alienation which I think lowers the credibility and therefore the trustworthiness of Apple.
"I can still sometime only wonder and shake my head over how differently the issues of sexuality and violence are approached in the US as compared to the EU."
The US is a curious mix.
The sight of a female nipple causes a media furore yet prostitution is legal and the us "adult entertainment" industry makes $13,000,000,000 a year.
It seems the "sin" part is absolved if you can industrialise the process and fund political campaigns.
(NOTE: full-on adult entertainment is still illegal in the UK)
The US is a curious mix.
The sight of a female nipple causes a media furore yet prostitution is legal and the us "adult entertainment" industry makes $13,000,000,000 a year.
It seems the "sin" part is absolved if you can industrialise the process and fund political campaigns.
(NOTE: full-on adult entertainment is still illegal in the UK)
I'm glad you asked.
1. I see an iphone as a miniature computer and I believe YOU should be in charge of what application you run on it.
2. Apple has made the appstore the only place to mass distribute applications for the iphone
3. Through 2. Apple actually is doing more than merely choosing what they sell when they ban an app, they are choosing what YOU can run
4. We have violated 1., so yes I think Apple is doing something wrong.
Imagine if you couldn't go to certain websites in windows because microsoft banned the site. Just because Apple is controlling apps (again if this statement bothers you see about) and not websites, doesn't mean it's not the same thing.
Er, yes it does.
Censoring websites is a different matter.
If you want to whack off over flash videos, then macbooks are unrestricted.
But the iPad has its eyes on a bigger prize - technology for technophobes.
And if they want to restrict the guest list - you are free to choose another platform.
ah .. see I read it as .. he visited that bar where someone molested a waitress and got kicked out .. lol
That's choice. A "manager" who attended a British law school but couldn't pass the bar exam, lecturing on the U.S. Constitution and how Constitutional cases in the U.S are argued. (Clue: you're dead wrong).
Pulling a boob wobbling app, or any app, has nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with aapl deciding what it wants using its iPhone OS (not just being displayed) on its device. Rather than foaming at the mouth about how aapl thinks killing is OK but boobs are bad, try a bit of critical thinking (admittedly not a manager's strong suit, but try anyway). There are tons of boobs apps which basically are downloadable pics for those who can't find their own with safari. What distinguishes this one is that its proclaiimed intended use is to to take certain parts of a pic and make them wobble. It's not anything near porn, and I would hope not even wanker material--just a tasteless, childish app which roughly 50% of the population would not find too amusing if their pictures were subjected to that app. [Note: to all those claiming they were raised in enlightened homes and only prudes are against it, put a pic of your sister/mother/babysitter on there and see how much they like it.] Again, it's the app's proclaimed intended use that's the problem. Change the name and don't predetermine the distortion/location and there shouldn't be a problem.
WTH has happened to the reasoning/critical thinking skills of teens today? The entire analysis/progression is based on a distorted sense of entitlement--that if you own something you should be able to run any application on it you want. Grow up.