Posted on March 12, 2010 by AMN
Apple can posture and ban sexy iPhone apps and Suicide Girls all it wants. Come March, porn will help the iPad rock. Here’s why. (The following is perfectly safe for work.) Like it or love it, there’s no denying the power of Internet porn. If you’re a worker in the TV, video, or computer industry, [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2010 by AMN
Late last month, Apple made the abrupt decision to remove any applications it deemed to be ’sexy’ from the App Store, citing complaints from parents. But the process of removing applications was clearly imperfect, as Apple pulled down some applications only to restore them a few days later. And apparently they missed a few: we’ve gotten [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2010 by AMN
Lost in the scurfuffle over its banning of most sex-related apps from the App Store was Apple’s decision last month to also limit the use of apps that deliver ads to users based on their location. Developers who send in such location-based apps for inclusion in the App Store could have them returned. While the [...]
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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 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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