26 juin 2009

“Who Exactly Is In Charge Of The App Store? Anyone?”

techcrunch.com

Here is Apple’s statement to CNN earlier today:

“Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography. The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed, and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content. This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program. The application is no longer available on the App Store.”

Oh, fuuuuck. They really are ruling the App Store by reacting to whatever catches the blogs’ attention. A lot of morons called it porn because it had female nipples, so — poof! — the app is gone.

It’d be one thing if Apple didn’t have a rating that accounts for sexual content, but it does. So clearly it expects some apps to have “”Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity” in the store. But according to its statement, it won’t allow for them. […]

The App Store approval process has basically been a joke for much of the past year. I was hopeful it would get better now that parental controls are a part of the iPhone 3.0 software. Apparently, I was wrong — it looks like it’s getting worse.

Ditto. And I just reuploaded the Web is Pink application yesterday, after recompiling it to be 3.0-only (since 3.0 introduced parental controls). Now it looks like, even if I somehow finally got the app approved, it might just be pulled if it ever became too popular. That’s just awesome.