Titillating iPhone applications are generally pretty gross. There's a time and a place for everything, and IMO your phone isn't the place, and riding the bus isn't the time. But I don't think they should be banned. Sadly, I'm not in charge of Apple, because Jobs and Co. are reportedly pulling a ton of applications from iTunes for being too sexy. Mind you, we're not talking hardcore porn here. We're talking apps that featured swimsuit models and the like.
The creator of the Wobble application (a genius-program that adds jiggling functionality to otherwise static images) spoke to Apple, and says they told him the new rules are as follows:
1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)
2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn’t ask about Ice Skating tights for men)
3. No skin (he seriously said this) (I asked if a Burqa was OK, and the Apple guy got angry)
4. No silhouettes that indicate that Wobble can be used for wobbling boobs (yes – I am serious...)
5. No sexual connotations or innuendo: boobs, babes, booty, sex – all banned
6. Nothing that can be sexually arousing!! (... those puritanical guys at Apple must get off on pretty mundane things to find Wobble “overtly sexual!")
7. No apps will be approved that in any way imply sexual content (not sure how Playboy is still in the store, but …)
The iPhone and iPod touch already have pretty robust parental controls, so I'm not sure why Apple would make this decision, but welcome to the Brave New World, where the manufacturers of entertainment/information platforms make arbitrary decisions about what content you're mature enough to view.
God knows what evil would happen if I were to look at a hot chick in skater-tights on my iPhone... and what about our nation's beloved beach volleyball players? Can I not look at Misty May on my iPhone? What is the world coming to??
Source: Tech Crunch
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CodePlague
Holy Crap, all my apps are gone!
luigiman83
About time! Kids have access to those things, and they're damn annoying too. I've also noticed that yesterday one of those apps on the top 100 free list was gone. Thank you Apple!!
MMPINC
Well I'm in a pickle!
I am about to submit my App; Photo Shootout to Apple. It's a unique CLASSY pro-photographer Sim game where the player shoots photography assignments for tear-sheets, in-game money and better camera equipment.
The first version's assignments are beauty shots of models and models in bathing suits. All of this is fashion magazine (supermarket checkout lane magazine rack) quality and I can't imagine it would be offensive.
So the question is will I get approved when I submit in the next two weeks or denied?
Check out my game trailer and let me know what your prediction is;
http://www.youtube.com/user/ PhotoShootoutApp
Website;
http://photoshootoutapp.com
Laurelespp
well they are banning it so the ipad will be ok for kids to use, parents would freak at the site of their children using the sexy app. and also sport illustrated swimsuit edition and playboy will stay on there so people w/ the ipad can use their magazine subscription on there instead of on the kindle or something.
milhouse91
Steve Jobs should have invented iLiver instead of the iPod.
holidaybob
This is just one of the many, many reasons that Apple will never get there hands on a single penny of mine. Screw u Apple. And Steve Jobs, too, just for good measure.
Atavax
the backlash isnt about people loosing their favorite apps. its that apple is willing to sacrifice service in order to ban harmless content.
Nub Salad
hmmm, I was looking forward to sprint maybe getting an iphone, but between the 30/mo charge for an iphone and this CRAP, i'm going to have to pass if it does come to sprint ever. This is crap, I'm not saying I want to download porn or anything sexually arousing to my phone, but a company shouldn't be able to ban what customers can buy for their devices. We pay the money for the phone and we decide what can and can't go on it. At least that's what i say.
GHETOyeti
What did the colonists do with tea? We shall do with app store. Everyone should boycott apple's store. WE will be victorious! stick it to the man!!
Dr_Obey
If you seriously asked about Burqa's being kosher with the new regulations, then you sir, are my savior.
lookatthisguy
I understand why people are complaining, but then I don't. I mean, I've got my iPhone, never had any need or interest in jailbreaking it, and I'm not so interested in any type of app that would be affected by this (prude? not desperately perverted? just prefer other mediums? irrelevant). I can't imagine that there are so, so many people out there that are going to lose out on their favorite apps (and if there are, they probably need to get out more).
What I'm getting at is I don't think people are angry about losing those specific apps--at least, I HOPE that's not it--but rather that Apple is choosing to censor even further the options available on the App Store. Should Apple be walking this line? I think no--censorship can get pretty hairy, and most people don't like to be censored. Just the feeling of restriction causes backlash, as we're seeing on this forum post already. However, just like Thoreauvian said, it is Apple's product, and I believe that they should be able to decide how they want to run/manage it. If people don't like that, they won't buy it (again, as some on here have decided after reading this), or else they'll jailbreak and get around it.
GHETOyeti
And there's a Playboy app?
Atomic_Boom22
Well may as well delete my shotgun app, too violent. Apple you do realize that most of your market is 20 somethings? While I don't want porn, I'll just download Watchmen, I mean how many fourteen year olds have watched that....
EdSabre
Why are they banning these things? Can 14 year olds afford IPhone's?!
smurfdiggler
Imagine the backlash and anger if Microsoft released a netbook/tablet and told you you couldn't download itunes or run Firefox...if they can't get away with it I don't see why Apple can.
zackcaster
As far as I know we have only one life to live and if I want to look at women in bikinis or porn for that matter, it's my life, leave us the F alone with all this sensor ship BS. At the end of the day it isn't going to mean a damn anyways, Apple can bite it.
Thoreauvian
I may be in the minority on this, but I really like Steve Jobs decision on this. The "smart play" (i.e. what would rake in money for Apple) would be to allow the "Sexy" apps because they're clearly popular on the top 10 downloads and Apple could make a ton of money. But do we really want or need those apps in the App Store?
I don't want to be the guy sitting next to the guy looking at porn on his iphone. It's creepy, it's uncomforatble. Do what you want in your own home, but don't bring your pervie impulses into a place that makes others uncomfortable. Second, the app store gets cluttered with these apps and imitators really quickly and it makes it difficult to find stuff that I want.
Listen, we live in a world where you can get all the porn you want on your computer. Does the iPhone have to do that for you too? For all the flak that Steve Jobs receives for being money hungry, I admire him for making a decision based on priciples and not the dollar sign. It's his product, it's his label... he can determine what he wants the iPhone to be and what he doesn't want it to be.
Doug Otto
Breasts are only natural. 'Nuff said.
xxapocolipticxx
seriously why i jailbroke mine so i can download apps Apple doesnt want on theyre store
cornixt
They should rename the iPhone to the iCannotLetYouDoThatPhone
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