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Ronald
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Here's the headline news.
http://gizmodo.com/5476484/apple-says-no-more-titillating-apps-period
http://chillifresh.com/2010/02/20/5000-apps-banned-the-new-rules/
I checked all the ‘adult’ related games on the iphone apple store and they’re all gone. No Strip Poker games. No nothing. Every adult like apps with photos have been removed.
Personally I'm very pissed off at Apple for making such a horrible decision.
| Quote: | While Other Bikini Apps Are Banned, iTunes Promotes Sports Illustrated’s Sexy Swimsuit App
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Share29Buzz it by Erick Schonfeld on Feb 22, 2010
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 app is filled with pictures of bikini-clad models.
If you fire up iTunes right now, you will see the SI Swimsuit app being promoted on the main App Store homepage. It is currently the No. 1 Sports app, the No. 13 free app, and the No. 35 Top Grossing app (you have to pay $1.99 to unlock all the free photos and videos). FHM’s $1.99 app is also filled with bikini and panty pics via its “Girl of the Week” and “Non-Stop Honeys” features. It also offers videos with titles such as “Young and Hardly Innocent” and “Lucy in Naughty Nighties.” The Playboy app is similarly salacious. Yet other non-name-brand bikini apps such as Bikini Blast are nowhere to be found on iTunes anymore.
So the rule seems to be: No sexy apps, unless you are magazine that can’t make money any other way. I can’t wait to see the SI Swimsuit app on the iPad. Maybe they will develop new touch gestures for the bigger screen.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/22/itunes-promotes-sports-illustrated-sexy-swimsuit-app/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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I don't have an apple other than my IPOD, but damn, our country is getting more prudish. Its like Adam and Eve when they bit from the forbidden fruit. The more they became aware, the more they began to hide themselves. Its the same concept that Apple is pulling right now.
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Damn, if it wasnt for the fact that i already have a few movies and a few gigs of music on my ipod touch i would have sold it already in protest.
And all this cencering all for to make advertisers more comfterable. *flips the bird towards Mr. Job's general direction.* |
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((You know... it's Apple's choice to do what it wants to do with their design and intelectual property.
Seriously. Walmart went and did a similar ban years ago... and people protested and said they'd never shop their again. And yet, Walmart is still one of the largest retail chains around.
Microsoft went and released L4D2 as a whole new game, instead of DLC. People protested and swore that they'd never support Microsoft again. And yet, L4D2 sales have been way better than L4D were.
What would be the difference if someone put up a sign that said, "Coat and Tie required to eat here." There isn't any.
And with the gazillion different ways to get cheap, naked, thrills, if Apple wants it's phone-computer to be more family-oriented let them.
In fact, you know who's really being balsy? Microsoft. They've imported and translated a semi-racy jRPG called..... well, great. Now I can't find it. But the point being, Microsoft is importing jRPGs for the Xbox that actually have softcore adult scenes in them.
Geeze.)) |
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| We're all adults here, so it is easy to assume the adult perspective that we should be entitled to content that we are mature enough to view. The idea, however, may be to limit the likelihood of certain items being viewable by the [word censored] community. I could only imagine the number of parents angry at finding what their kids have on their iPhone forming a frivolous class action suit against Apple because the company wasn't doing enough to keep such materials out of their kids' hands. This is America, the home of sheister lawyers out to make a buck, even on the most ridiculous cases (McDonald's coffee anyone?). |
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| Shadow_Twisted wrote: | | I could only imagine the number of parents angry at finding what their kids have on their iPhone forming a frivolous class action suit against Apple because the company wasn't doing enough to keep such materials out of their kids' hands. This is America, the home of sheister lawyers out to make a buck, even on the most ridiculous cases (McDonald's coffee anyone?). |
America is full of hypocrites, and sheister lawyers out to make a buck.
There was REAL merit on the McDonald's coffee case, but the award of several million was criminal.
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