Posts Tagged ‘AppStore’
Apple Says No More Titillating Apps, Period [Apple]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on February 21st, 2010
Recently, Apple removed Wobble—an app that adds real jiggle to photographic boobies—from the App Store. Other removals followed. Now, a developer who talked to Apple has the scoop on the future of iPhone titillation, and it is bleak.
Really bleak. Like no racy photos, no suggestive language, no bathing suits bleak.
This devastating news comes by way of TechCrunch, who has been following this story closely (but not in a weird way). Initially it seemed that Apple's new policy was to ban "overtly sexual content," which was disappointing, but, you know, understandable. Now TC has received word from a developer who has discussed the matter with "multiple App Store reviewers," and things aren't looking too hot. Not even close to hot, in fact.
Said developer was told "there will be no more applications that are for any purpose of excitement or titillation." Huh? I get pretty excited playing Tapulous—are they going to ban that too? Well, if you're thinking that maybe behind the hyperbole things aren't actually so bad, think again. Here's the full shakedown, as recapped by the developer of Wobble, an individual who has been standing in the shower since Apple first turned on the cold water on Thursday night:
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, we have to remove the silhouette in this pic)
5. No sexual connotations or innuendo: boobs, babes, booty, sex – all banned
6. Nothing that can be sexually arousing!! (I doubt many people could get aroused with the pic above but 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 …)
This can't be life! Of course, the glimmer of hope here is that Apple is still reviewing their policy and taking a hard line while doing so, just to be safe. On the other hand, this could it, the real deal, the Puritanical future of apps on the iPhone. I hope you have a thing for girls in turtlenecks. [TechCrunch]
EyeTV iPhone app granted 3G streamability, App Store’s WiFi-only club hemorrhaging members
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 17th, 2009
EyeTV iPhone app granted 3G streamability, App Store's WiFi-only club hemorrhaging members originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EyeTV | Email this | Comments Android Market hits 20,000 apps, over 60 percent free
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 15th, 2009
Android Market hits 20,000 apps, over 60 percent free originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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AndroLib, CIO | Email this | Comments Android Market hits 20,000 apps, over 60 percent free
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 15th, 2009
Android Market hits 20,000 apps, over 60 percent free originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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AndroLib, CIO | Email this | Comments Kindle App for iPhone goes international, starts to get a little annoying at parties
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 14th, 2009
We get it, Amazon Kindle App: you’ve just become available in over 60 countries, you’re something of a jet setter now. But you don’t have to go around and rub it in our faces. So what if we’ve only been to Mexico that one time by accident and can’t sync books and page placement via Amazon’s Whispersync technology… that doesn’t make us any less valuable as a person. Oh, and you’re coming to the Mac and BlackBerry “soon,” huh? Well, aren’t you special.
Kindle App for iPhone goes international, starts to get a little annoying at parties originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Motorola’s Shop4apps online Android app store discovered
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 12th, 2009
[Thanks, Taylor]
Motorola's Shop4apps online Android app store discovered originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Android and Me | Email this | Comments Meizu M8 app store to become reality this month?
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 9th, 2009

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Meizu M8 app store to become reality this month? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Meizu Me | Email this | Comments iPhones rejoice as Ustream Live Broadcaster hits App Store, other smartphones wonder what all the ruckus is
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 9th, 2009

iPhones rejoice as Ustream Live Broadcaster hits App Store, other smartphones wonder what all the ruckus is originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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UStream | Email this | Comments Ratings Scam Gets Almost 1% of App Store Pulled [Apps]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 7th, 2009
Molinker, creator of over a thousand iPhone apps, has been banned for juking the ratings system.
The report from iphoneography says many of the company’s products had over 50 five-star reviews, mostly written in the same syntactically shaky style by reviewers who only wrote about about apps from Molinker. One customer complaint to Phil Schiller later, and all of Molinker’s 1,011 apps are now gone from the App Store.
As far as scams go, this one seems pretty poorly thought out, although it does make clear that savvier developers should have no problem giving themselves an illicit ratings boost. [iphoneography via AppAdvice]







