Posted on February 27, 2010 by AMN
So the truth is finally out as to why Apple purged the App Store of all those “naughty” apps. It wasn’t because of complaints from women and/or the easily offended — it was because Apple itself was embarrassed about them. At least that’s the argument posited by John Gruber on his Daring Fireball blog. Pointing [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2010 by AMN
Much media interest was generated earlier this week when it emerged that Apple was kicking many apps, that it deemed sexually explicit or inappropriate, from the iPhone App Store. A solution may now be at hand. Reports are suggesting that Apple may resolve the issue by producing a section specifically for saucier apps. App developers [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 by AMN
STEVE JOBS’ puritan purge on anything that looks like a woman’s ankle on his iPhone app store is driving away developers. Steve issued a crackdown on applications which probably would not offend the strictest of nuns and banned even swimsuits from his true and holy store. However while this might have got his store the [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 by AMN
Apple’s moral App Store crusade has been devastatingly and alarmingly effective, laying waste to over 5000 apps the company arbitrarily deemed objectionable. So, we asked Lux Alptraum, Editor of Fleshbot (NSFW), what’s left? She calmed our nerves. (With porn.) What Apple’s been doing was widely characterized as a porn purge, but despite names like “Asian [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2010 by AMN
CED and Night Mobile have announced an agreement to build and operate 4HOTtv.mobi, CED’s multi-brand mobile offering. 4HOTtv will feature the best of all CED’s affiliate studios in one destination for mobile access, and will also offer subscribers access to NightMobile’s content database of more than 9,000 titles. “This is truly a unique opportunity to bring [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 by AMN
Apple has started banning many applications for its iPhone that feature sexually suggestive material, including photos of women in bikinis and lingerie, a move that came as an abrupt surprise to developers who had been profiting from such programs. The company’s decision to remove the applications from its App Store over the last few days [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 by AMN
Apple is getting more prudish and pulling sexy apps from iTunes. One of the new rules is no more bikini apps, unless you happen to be Sports Illustrated (or FHM or Playboy). Sports Illustrated, for instance, just released its 2010 Swimsuit app on iTunes on February 9, before the ban really started. The SI Swimsuit [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010 by AMN
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple has decided to pull an app called Wobble iBoobs, which lets users jiggle women’s breasts, in an attempt to remove sexually explicit content from its App store. Jon Atherton, the developer of the Wobble iBoobs App, told TechCrunch.com that he received an email from Apple saying that his application was being [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010 by AMN
Company says complaints have led to a reevaluation of the App Store acceptance policy for sex-related applications; some developers calling it a ‘purge’ CUPERTINO, Calif.—Sex is throwing everyone for a loop. The press is painfully uncomfortable covering the subject—i.e., Tiger Woods—and Apple is twisting itself into a lather trying to find the right policy to [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010 by AMN
Apple is stirring up yet another censorship brouhaha with its latest changes to App Store policy. The company recently began blocking screenshots for apps that are outside the acceptable age range in Parental Controls in iTunes. According to iPhone developer ChiliFresh, it seems that all “overtly sexual” apps might be expunged from the App Store [...]
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