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Over 5000 'Overtly Sexual' Apps Pulled from App Store (And Counting)

Thank you Apple

Give me a break. If you are that hard up to have these trashy apps you need more then an iphone to fill the void. Thank you Apple for making the classy move. You have bigger things to worry about than these apps or the people who buy them.
 
Friscohoya said:
Everybody has sex (hopefully) I dont know why we hide from it. Its responsible for the very existence of everybody on this forum. Native iPhone porn apps would sell through the roof. I wonder if adult magazines will be a part of the ipad magazine push. The fact that playboy still has an app in the app store says a lot. I dont care what anyone says, those pictures are overtly sexual.

P.S. great 1990's video game reference.
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I agree, but the amount of just stupid apps with pictures and porn on them was getting out of control. Like i said though, we can all have it, but in safari, not in the app store
 
klgdigital said:
Give me a break. If you are that hard up to have these trashy apps you need more then an iphone to fill the void. Thank you Apple for making the classy move. You have bigger things to worry about than these apps or the people who buy them.
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I do agree with you. Removing the Apps is not going to hurt Apple in anyway. It will not stop someones decision in buying an iPhone or iPad.
 
just another example of religion and prudishness interfering with personal freedoms.

sure, i'd guesstimate that 99.99% of all "overtly sexual" apps are actually completely useless and lame, but please, let's remove them because they are useless and lame, not because they are sexual. jesus.
 
I guess Apple is letting Playboy stay in the App Store because we all know people buy it for the articles. :D
 
Apple Restrictions

Apple have now gotten pathetic! they make me bloody angry! They won't support any open source community or development and now there taking the one thing all us men love away... girls with big boobs in skimpy clothes!

Apple you make me sick! Great devices but you have everything planned out wrong. in the end your just loosing proffit though!
 
Their definition is overly broad—or even arbitrary: that game that was pulled was highly-rated in TouchArcade’s review. It had a style that parodied B-movies, including a (non-nude) character in skimpy attire. Big deal—it had a content rating to keep people away who would be offended.

http://toucharcade.com/2010/02/10/daisy-maes-alien-buffet-is-open-for-business/
WARNING: SFWUYWA (Safe For Work Unless You Work at Apple).

Content ratings already allow people not to see these apps if they don’t want to. (Other than that game, I haven’t heard of a banned app I’d care to see—but I’d rather make that call myself, and let developers who worked hard on a game/app not have the rules changed out from under their feet.) Maybe Apple needed to do something, but they did it wrong.

(And what about movies, cable TV shows song lyrics, and music videos? What’s next for iTunes censorship?)
 
Takuta-Nui said:
I'm a bit torn between my liberal tendencies toward freedom to do whatever one pleases as long as it doesn't harm any others, and my belief that Apple has taken a step in the direction of quality over quantity. Hmm. We'll have to see this pan out.
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I don't really see the conflict if you really believe in the "freedom to do whatever one pleases as long as is doesn't harm any others." If you truly believe that then you have to extend that to Apple. Surely it has the freedom to do whatever it pleases with its App Store as long as it doesn't harm others, right?
 
ugp said:
I wonder if they could link some sort of Age verification to your iTunes account. That could maybe sort of adult specific Apps from other Apps for purchase.

In all reality blocking Adult content in App forms doesn't stop adult content from being viewed on the devices anyways. Apps just make it easier :D LOL
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+1

The only other thing I would add to that is that it seems to fill up the app store with a lot of apps which many may deem as not appropriate. For me personally - I don't have an iPhone and never looked at the app store, but after reading the first thread on this thought I'd have a look. I was shocked by how many adult apps are on there. Considering I have a 12 yr old son I would think that the simplest thing is to put an age filter in. As many have said before though - it is the :apple:store though!
 
Just curious, (anyone know this answer) what happens to those that purchased the apps already, will their apps get yanked from their phone when they re-synce their phone? I haven't seen anyone ask that. I don't have any of them, and don't really care if Apple removes the apps, but seems crappy if they took the ones that people already bought, or was this move to just remove them from further purchases?

Another questions, where will the censorship stop on the iPad? Will people be able to subscribe to Maxim, Sports Illustrated, Playboy?
 
Begone ye heathens!

Good riddance! Most of these were nothing but hard-coded slide show apps of female model stock photography with a one trick pony user interface.

You want sexual apps, there are plenty of adult smart-phone portals out there already. Market wise, you make any title adult or pornographic, you tend to loose 80% of a consumer marketplace. I'm sure Apple is looking at this factor.
 
Srai-W said:
+1

The only other thing I would add to that is that it seems to fill up the app store with a lot of apps which many may deem as not appropriate. For me personally - I don't have an iPhone and never looked at the app store, but after reading the first thread on this thought I'd have a look. I was shocked by how many adult apps are on there. Considering I have a 12 yr old son I would think that the simplest thing is to put an age filter in. As many have said before though - it is the :apple:store though!
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Well my thought was more so on magazines because look at Playboy. I am sure a lot of people would subscribe to a digital release of it. Makes it more private in receiving it. And it would be a legitimate App. Playboy in my opinion is very tasteful and always has been. It's not hardcore like others. But even so they are top selling magazines in the industry.

I wouldn't mind doing an age verification through Drivers License or something. But then again a lot of people would be upset by that as well right?
 
at last. those apps were dumb.

now if only they got rid of the useless apps too.
 
Neotyguy40 said:
Wow... I'm surprised by the types of comments...

Porn is horrible, it makes people do stupid things and is fundamentally taking advantage of our instincts to bang the other gender.

And people taking advantage of that by selling it? Go die in the streets.
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You should probably take a look at this.
 
klgdigital said:
Give me a break. If you are that hard up to have these trashy apps you need more then an iphone to fill the void. Thank you Apple for making the classy move. You have bigger things to worry about than these apps or the people who buy them.
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Yup, it is class to say the least. Those who wrote this will inevitably go to Android. Talk about a torpedo!
 
I'd like to know the definition of "useless" apps. i'd be careful on that one. There may be 100 measurement conversion apps, but if each is working for someone, then they would not be useless. I think the rating system should amount to something so as a buyer you can decide if they are useless or not by reading about them. I wish there was more filters, and a better way to sort this all out. It seems the technology is there for that to be the case.
 
Maybe a purging process. Say an App doesn't get a certain amount of downloads over a specified time. Like say 6 months doesn't hit X amount... then remove and purge it out.

Don't products that don't sell get removed off the shelves to make room for newer items that maybe will sell. If they don't sell then they won't sell in the future.
 
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