Apple and App Store Censorship
What’s the deal with this censorship, Apple? Ok, you banned jiggly boob apps, and even all apps that have babes in bikinis. One can argue for this in some ways, but you still sell an app from Playboy.
So now you censor a Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist for satire. This is an app with political cartoons; it’s satire, dudes. Seriously…
But at the same time, you sell and or rent Gas Pump Girls, a tit-illating movie if there ever was one. And you sell (or provide for free) many books that contain, well, sex, such as James Joyce’s Ulysses, or any number of serial-killer novels with graphic violence.
What’s the deal, Apple? Is the word “hypocrisy” not in your dictionary? You really need to establish some sort of clear, public guidelines, and stop refusing apps arbitrarily, while selling and renting stuff which is far more obscene than the kinds of apps you’ve turned down.
And please, don’t even think of censoring books…
Update: Apple has changed its mind. Which underscores how arbitrary this whole procedure is.
Posted: 4/16/2010 by kirk | Filed under: Apple & Mac OS X | Tags: App Store, Apple, censorship | 3 Comments »
exactly correct!
Apple is doing damage to it’s core brrand values with this relentless & irrational pogrom against its customers’ dignity.
SACK THE ENTIRE APP APPROVAL VETTING TEAM NOW – before it’s too late & apple is reduced to being just another arrogant corporate monolith like any other!
Apple already is “another arrogant corporate monolith,” just one with very attractive and innovative products.
@ brandenburg5.
so true.
lol.