DANG!!! Now I only have 22,395 places to get my porn.
Curse you Apple and your censorship polices!
Curse you Apple and your censorship polices!
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Over 5000 'Overtly Sexual' Apps Pulled from App Store (And Counting)
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love the image some would say it is very appropriate.
gotta love an app spammer.
i suspect there is more to this story than just 'censoring' sex out of the app store. although Apple is likely within their legal rights to do so just like other stores can.
The developers? who made these apps are lucky they ever were accepted in the first place, low down good for nothing predators who know there will always be people prepared to pay money to watch someones boobs jiggle! Maybe now they can spend all their hard earned cash on some nice leopard print curtains.
Absolutely necessary for the survival of the App Store
The app store has suffered from a bloat of fluff and content not desirable by a majority of shoppers. This has caused developers to question the viability of developing for the iPhone. It's truly impossible to get our apps noticed nowadays unless someone specifically searchings for the right keywords. Sex marketers also know those keywords. Google and big search sites know how to filter this junk out. The app store has not.
Personally, I don't want to face thousands of apps advertising boobs of every kind while shopping for a photography app anyway. The app store started as a family friendly place to shop. Pandering to the minority who are sex shoppers is not in the best interest of apple or it's developers.
The app store has suffered from a bloat of fluff and content not desirable by a majority of shoppers. This has caused developers to question the viability of developing for the iPhone. It's truly impossible to get our apps noticed nowadays unless someone specifically searchings for the right keywords. Sex marketers also know those keywords. Google and big search sites know how to filter this junk out. The app store has not.
Personally, I don't want to face thousands of apps advertising boobs of every kind while shopping for a photography app anyway. The app store started as a family friendly place to shop. Pandering to the minority who are sex shoppers is not in the best interest of apple or it's developers.
I don't agree or disagree with the decision, but it's Apple's store they can sell (or not sell) whatever they want. If the market rejects this decision, then the competition will gain from it.
Media organization or media distributor? Which one is it? Can a distributor, as you have stated, not decide what they want to distribute?
Learn how to read, please. You are making yourself look bad.
No surprise that the response from the MacRumors.com crowd is well above 50% in favor of more censorship. Lame ultra-sanitized forums with no negativity allowed.
Yay, censorship! make everyone else live by the values that YOU think are right! Squash all dissent! /sarcasm
Most of you make me sick. Go move to China, they don't allow anything offensive to ever touch their citizens, ever. It's where you want the rest of us to head anyway.
Yay, censorship! make everyone else live by the values that YOU think are right! Squash all dissent! /sarcasm
Most of you make me sick. Go move to China, they don't allow anything offensive to ever touch their citizens, ever. It's where you want the rest of us to head anyway.
I'm not too fussed about these apps being pulled. On the one hand they aren't actually porn and on the other hand they are a bit trashy. But then there are plenty of crApps still on the app store, way too many.
What really bugs me is that when I am surfing the app store say in the utilities
category, lots of these apps come up. Same for most other categories. For goodness sake, why can't they just have an adult category for people who want this sort of stuff instead of it being mixed in with all the other apps.
What really bugs me is that when I am surfing the app store say in the utilities
category, lots of these apps come up. Same for most other categories. For goodness sake, why can't they just have an adult category for people who want this sort of stuff instead of it being mixed in with all the other apps.
Most of us don't mind criticism, we just don't like swearing in our face and acting like an uncivil monkeys. Even the "Fanboys" correct when the Apple fanboys are being a bit douchey.
I'm guessing the market for these apps is not, literally, 'adults'
That said, I don't want to deprive others of something they like just because I don't. I do agree separating them out would be good.
What do you think a "media organization" is? It's an organization that distributes media. I thought you were at least intelligent enough to make that connection on your own without me spelling it out. Comcast is a media organization that distributes TV shows and movies through a cable box, a radio station is a media organization that distributes songs through airwaves. Apple is a media organization that distributes TV shows, movies, and songs through the internet.
Your insults would hit harder if you weren't so clearly a buffoon.
I think this is all in preparation for the ipad. Easier for people to see over your shoulder and see what content your viewing. I think 
thinks that might hurt their sales.
thinks that might hurt their sales.The problem with this decision is not whether these apps are in the store. (I say that if you do not want them, do not look at them or buy them. We have parental controls for the non adult issue by the way) The problem is as always in the app store, there is no consistency.
Developers spend real time and money creating any app. Even ones that you might not be interested in or think is a "crap app". If the app store policies allow for these apps, Apple approves of them and one day changes ITS mind with no warning or recourse for the developer, this hurts all of us who use the platform. I thought very favorably about becoming a app developer, but the Goggle Voice thing stopped me in my tracks. I can not risk my time and money under the system that Apple is using today. This decision only reinforces my past feelings.
One other point about lack of consistency. NO "bikinis" is the new Apple policy, yet the SI swimsuit app is not only still in the store -it's the featured app on the store. No nudity is the Apple policy but the Playboy app is still in the store. So the rules apply unless they don't.
Sadly all of this is making that Android phone or maybe the new Windows Phone 7 Series look better and better all the time. Something about OPEN....
Developers spend real time and money creating any app. Even ones that you might not be interested in or think is a "crap app". If the app store policies allow for these apps, Apple approves of them and one day changes ITS mind with no warning or recourse for the developer, this hurts all of us who use the platform. I thought very favorably about becoming a app developer, but the Goggle Voice thing stopped me in my tracks. I can not risk my time and money under the system that Apple is using today. This decision only reinforces my past feelings.
One other point about lack of consistency. NO "bikinis" is the new Apple policy, yet the SI swimsuit app is not only still in the store -it's the featured app on the store. No nudity is the Apple policy but the Playboy app is still in the store. So the rules apply unless they don't.
Sadly all of this is making that Android phone or maybe the new Windows Phone 7 Series look better and better all the time. Something about OPEN....
The Playboy app does not contain any fully nude content.
I still think it should be pulled, along with the Hooters and SI Swimsuit apps, if Apple wants to maintain consistency with their new "no overtly sexual" apps policy, but "no nudity" as always been an App Store policy.
Give me a break. There is a clear difference between an "organization" in the context of the definition and a distributor. Are you that simple minded to lump a "media distributor" into the category of "media organization" and then insult my intelligence. Please. There is a clear difference and I shouldn't have to spell it out for you.
Comcast is a distributor of media. They can decide what they want to distribute and what they do not want to distribute. This is not censorship.
It seems you are confusing "media creation" and "media distribution." If a organization decides to pick and choose what content gets created sure that is censorship and would be an abuse of power. This would be the equivalent to the government censoring media.
But even here, there are other outlets for the content. Let's say CNN decides not to air something, well Fox could pick up. And that is why I do not consider this type of action to be censorship. Now if all the media outlets banded together and said: "This content should not be given the time of day." That would be censorship since the content is being suppressed.
Since there are other distribution outlets for pornography, while Apple may be "censoring" (and please note I think this use of the word is a misuse) the creators can go where they please. Android, the internet, WinMo, etc.
The real issue here is how loose do you want the definition of "censorship" to be? Apple is not suppressing their speech in the sense that censorship typically denotes. If you want the decision to not carry some media to be considered censorship, then as I have stated go cry about it to all the other "media organizations" that are doing this and were doing it long before the App Store. Apple is not stopping these developers from creating the content, they are simply choosing not to distribute it.
No "rights" are being trampled here. There is no "right" that states one should be able to sell whatever they want in the Apple App Store. Instead, it seems you are trying to trample on the right for a business to carry what they want, which would be covered under the right to freedom.
Sometimes the instinct is to bang the same gender, which should
really cause Apple's censors grief.
Do they have any idea how hot those soccer players in their
skimpy shorts are on the ESPN app?
If you think this, don't go to guyswithiphones.com or chickswithiphones.com ...
You'll see things"standing together" with the Iphone that may surprise you....
In general, no. But some Americans are, and some of those are very quick to complain
to advertisers or publishers.
Fortunately, many companies realize that the complaints come from an organized, vocal minority - and the
companies ignore them.
Perhaps the turtle-necked overlord has lost his spine....
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Apple telling me what I shouldn't have on my computing device is insulting to me as a free citizen and adult. There are some standards of which I agree but the scope of this censorship is way over the line. Like the Taliban, they believe the female body shouldn't be seen in anything but a burka.
This is a small step away from apple censoring and telling us what apps and content we can have on our desktop or laptop, after all isn't the iPad the next device of which is supposed to replace those?
I personally don't think shooter games are the healthiest thing either but its not my right to tell others what they are allowed to enjoy. Why is it that conservative purists always seem to find violence to be much more acceptable form of expression then anything deemed even mildly "sexual" in its nature.
This is an unfair and idiotic decision bases on a vocal minority of prudes who are simply afraid of the human body. Its apples right to censor whatever they want but I sure as heck don't have to support it.
This has me thinking twice about if I really want to support a product under this type of censorship, yet another example of how apple is slowly turning into another overbearing company like microsoft.
Apple telling me what I shouldn't have on my computing device is insulting to me as a free citizen and adult. There are some standards of which I agree but the scope of this censorship is way over the line. Like the Taliban, they believe the female body shouldn't be seen in anything but a burka.
This is a small step away from apple censoring and telling us what apps and content we can have on our desktop or laptop, after all isn't the iPad the next device of which is supposed to replace those?
I personally don't think shooter games are the healthiest thing either but its not my right to tell others what they are allowed to enjoy. Why is it that conservative purists always seem to find violence to be much more acceptable form of expression then anything deemed even mildly "sexual" in its nature.
This is an unfair and idiotic decision bases on a vocal minority of prudes who are simply afraid of the human body. Its apples right to censor whatever they want but I sure as heck don't have to support it.
This has me thinking twice about if I really want to support a product under this type of censorship, yet another example of how apple is slowly turning into another overbearing company like microsoft.
Dates wrong
I know this is just OCD of me, but I always hate it when Days are published wrong in any journalistic publications. February 17th was a Wednesday and February 18th was a Thursday; I would know because the 17th is my birthday.
I know this is just OCD of me, but I always hate it when Days are published wrong in any journalistic publications. February 17th was a Wednesday and February 18th was a Thursday; I would know because the 17th is my birthday.
There might be a question of where did the content of the application originate in addition to the rules.
Do the content provides have the necessary documentation on the models in the application that
1. They consent to being in the application
2. They are of proper age
3. The publisher of the content maintains the proper documentation on file
http://www.danheller.com/model-release-primer
We know Playboy do the above as well as SI...