Apple Now Blocking 'Overtly Sexual' Apps from App Store
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There is nothing in wrong in being a sharecropper if that is what someone wants to do, but I don't get the angst. When the owner says "jump" the correct response from a sharecropper is "How high"?
That was never rescinded, they just eased the acceptance a bit as people poked and prodded the boundaries. People were looking to make a quick buck by skirting the rules.
This isn't a matter of Apple being dickish, this is a matter of folks taking known risks and getting whacked on the head for it.
Can we really expect any other situation? And why couldn't Apple go one step further with ratings/controls and provide an adults-only app store area?
My biggest concern (other than the lack of adult content available to me) is that Apple can first approve and be okay with selling such content, and then turn around and remove them all from the app store because other people supposedly complained too much about a specific group of apps. It was bad enough dealing with their arbitrarily defined and enforced restrictions and approval guidelines. Okay, they're the gatekeepers, and they can do whatever they want, but that makes it a lot harder for me to work as I really don't know what Apple's whims will be like when it comes to an app idea I'm considering.
SG is sexual, but not out right porn. Apple can do what it wants, but it kind of sucks that an entire company's branding is essentially banned or "in review" for 3 months.
Yes, they have Safari, but that harkens back to the web vs native app debate.
If only Android was the popular one...
On the other hand, half the country lives in "fly over" America, and doesn't want to see smut or have their children subjected to smut on the iPod. So, I can see how this decision was made.
It'll have a chilling effect on people who want to build an application with wobbling tits in it, but I don't see that as a bad thing. It's not just people in the mid-West who don't want smut in the App Store.
I can easily find smut on the Internet via my iPhone if I want it. I don't need it to be in the App Store.
i don't need anything to be in the app store myself, but luckily for you "i don't need anything to be in the app store" is not the same as "i need the app store to be empty".
is that clear? there's a difference between not caring and forcing your opinions on others.
And Apple's just a business. Getting points with (potential) customers is all well and good until there's a noticeable impact on the bottom line for doing so. Nobility's gotta pay the bills, too.