Apple: iPhone app store is a porn-free zone
Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:27PM EDT
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Want to gaze at topless babes on your iPhone? Well, you'll have to look somewhere other than the App Store—or at least, that's Apple's policy.
"Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography," Apple's Tom Neumayr said, according to CNN.
"Hottest Girls" was already an approved iPhone app prior to yesterday's flap, but it only served up relatively tame pin-ups before Thursday.
The "17+"-rated app mysteriously disappeared later in the day, but the developer initially denied that Apple had pulled it, explaining that it was merely "sold out."
Well, not quite, said Apple's spokesman (via CNN), who dinged the "Hottest Girls" developer for adding "inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed ... this was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program."
Of course, there are still plenty of risqué iPhone apps in the App Store if you know where to look, so I'm betting that Apple's no-porn policy will be something of a cat-and-mouse game.
In any case, check out this post for instructions on how to enable parental controls on the iPhone.
Meanwhile, what do you think: Should adult content be allowed in the App Store? Or should Apple keep it clean?
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Apple rejects soft-core porn iPhone app [CNN SciTechBlog]
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2 Posted by wkcgreenteam on Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:07PM EDT Report Abuse
It shouldn't have been pulled especially since the 3.0 software update with parental controls was added.
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3 Posted by wolverinemarky on Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:10PM EDT Report Abuse
i agree with number 1 and 2 apple must not have much faith in their parental controls if there pulling apps still.
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4 Posted by elainetlong on Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:20PM EDT Report Abuse
I doubt Apple wants to associate their product with the merchandizing and dehumanizing of women as objects to be consumed. Apple does not need to go that route to sell their technology. It sells itself without using primitive methods to attract attention.
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6 Posted by jewelryczar on Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:43PM EDT Report Abuse
It's fine that Apple won't sell porn in the iTunes Movie Store - it's a market and prouct selection choice, and those who want porn can get it somewhere else. But since the App Store is the ONLY legal place to get iPhone/iPod Touch apps, I don't like Apple's limitation and "approval" of apps. It's too close to censorship. Apple can't say "go somewhere else to buy content that we don't agree with" when they are the only source out there. Once other phone's app stores start allowing more content, I bet Apple will too.
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7 Posted by wyseboy@rocketmail.com on Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:53PM EDT Report Abuse
OH SHUT UP APPLE RULES OVER STUPID MICROSOFT! THEY CAN'T EVEN MAKE A MP3 PLAYER THATS GOOD!
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8 Posted by bella77427 on Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:04AM EDT Report Abuse
Thank you very much.
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9 Posted by hobo_59 on Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:21PM EDT Report Abuse
HA HA i think there more importent things
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10 Posted by alexgannis on Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:38AM EDT Report Abuse
Apple sucks, Window PC Rocks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 Posted by angeleastlos on Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:57PM EDT Report Abuse
with parental controls, apple should not be restricting the apps to "family friendly" content, apple should start an adults only apps page so that adults who want that type of content can download it, it is our right to download anything we want on to our iphones!!!!!