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Jul 02, 09 - 10:11 am Comment from: Ottawa Mark

Certainly the "Faces" recognition engine in iPhoto can be adapted for the purpose of weeding out nudity, no? Imagine the possibilities...

Jul 02, 09 - 10:14 am Comment from: Wha

Maybe Apple can implement in the iPhone OS the same technology that they use to recognize faces in iPhoto, but instead of faces have the OS recognize boobs, vagina and penis so they can be filtered.

Jul 02, 09 - 10:15 am Comment from: Wha

LOL! You beat me to it Ottawa.

I don't blame Apple for this one. They have an international stage and have always been in the spotlight for education and wanting to better society through their products. Although I don't agree with censorship, the App store is still young. As it matures, there will be plenty of apps for everyone.

Pi

It is a stupid worthless app anyway.

Somebody here predicted this would occur.

iPhone with medical data, discussing new trend in patient care is on CNBC right now.

Apple should better use the parental control features and App Store app rating system, than attempt to pull every app that some misuse.

better than that, a report feature.

see child pr0n, don't support it report it.

Jul 02, 09 - 10:34 am Comment from: amyhre

Cam whores. Nothing new there. If they don't get attention, maybe they'll stop. But then again, maybe some are worth paying attention to?

there are several other similar apps in the app store too - like hot or not - why not pull those too?

Jul 02, 09 - 10:35 am Comment from: HMCIV

@Ottawa Mark, Wha

Your idea suggests some unhealthy competition for Facebook.

Jul 02, 09 - 10:36 am Comment from: Bandit Bill

Why did the girls get 4.7 and 4.8 out of 5 for their clothes?

Jul 02, 09 - 10:38 am Comment from: Jersey_Trader

Perhaps the facial recognition feature can be re-programed as a nude filter. I assume that anyone can upload nude video or photos to their .mac or .me account. This is hard to stop short of a fine or penalty charge for misuse.

Good luck Apple.

Jul 02, 09 - 10:45 am Comment from: MrMcLargeHuge

This is a disgusting, tasteless concept. I can't believe an app with a concept such as this would be approved in the first place. Talk about degrading society...

Jul 02, 09 - 10:47 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

Go ahead—withdraw this app from the I-Tunes store. MAC is actually doing everyone a big favor. There aren't any good looking chicks who use the crappy I-Phone anyway. However, just wait until you see the babes who will use this app when it reappears on the ZunePhone. Va va vooooom! Zune hotties!

Your potential. Our passion.™

Jul 02, 09 - 10:52 am Comment from: MrMcLargeHuge

Oh Zune Tang, how we have missed your pithy comments.

Jul 02, 09 - 10:53 am Comment from: qka

Zune hotties!

Ballmer in drag.

Apple we have already had enough of this "Nanny State" mentality from the Obamma administration! Enough is ENOUGH!!

Sometimes censorship is appropriate.
Sesame Street, billboards etc.
If someone wants to see nudity, fine... there are plenty of places to see it.
It doesn't have to be on the iPhone.

Jul 02, 09 - 11:06 am Comment from: HMCIV

@Zune Tang

I think I just Zuned in my mouth.

Jul 02, 09 - 11:19 am Comment from: Cubert

@MrMcLargeHuge,
Your first post is kinda ironic given your name.

OH GOD!!! I found porn on Safari!!!!

@Macdoc, what in the hell does the "Obamma" administration have to do with Apple's censorship of an app?

I wonder if the app would pass if it had internal controls for reporting (and then removing) inappropriate content? Apple doesn't seem to care about Internet apps that could be misused (for example, Safari and a host of communication apps already available). No doubt many perverts are viewing porn on the iPhone every day, and Apple could care less. The problem is when an app is focused on a specific task that a person would expect to be safe, but instead it delivers filth when you don't expect it.

I tried to download the app right after the first reports yesterday but it was already gone.

Apple better pull Safari out of the iPhone OS, since there is plenty of objectionable content available on the web. Oh, the children!!! We must save the children!!!!

Jul 02, 09 - 11:47 am Comment from: Cubert

Excuse me - I have a date with Rosie DaPalma and her 5 sisters. Be back in a bit.....

Jul 02, 09 - 11:51 am Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

@ HMCIV,

"I think I just Zuned in my mouth."

Do realize that the most common analogy is between the Zune and poop.

Jul 02, 09 - 11:52 am Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Or rather "do you".

Jul 02, 09 - 11:59 am Comment from: Brau

Jeez Louise! Talk about a double standard! So, how long before Apple pulls Safari? I mean just look at all the porn Apple is providing unlimited access to. I guess it's okay for Apple but not for anyone else.

Anyone ever use the Zintin App? It allows for unmonitored uploads of nude photos and that app is so old.

Porn and nudity doesn't bother me and personally I think Apple could make provisions for it in the App store with proper precautions of course, but child porn, that's a whole different matter. These girls were under age and I'm completely against that and agree with Apple 100% on this one. Since there seems to be no way with this app to insure that kids posting are over 18 and wearing (enough) clothes, Apple had no recourse but to pull it.

Apple has the consumer/entertainment biz side down. Apple does not own the Internet, and you can browse porn all you want on any web device other than an iPhone, so no issue there.

Apple does own its store, and Apple want the iPhone to grow into a serious business and enterprise tool. So any time this kind of numbskull story headlines news sites and drown out great tools like the medical apps, the product's reputation gets dinged. I don't blame Apple for being overly sensitive or ambiguous in its store policy. No phone maker has ever had to manage these things before. WinMo/Pre only wish they have bad app publicity like this, and RIM is probably glad it doesn't have to deal with this.

Jul 02, 09 - 01:23 pm Comment from: The Other Steve

"community of gawkers desperate for any kind of attention"

Wouldn't the people who upload their photos be the ones "desperate for any kind of attention" ?

BTW - Before anti censer people bash Apple for this one, keep in mind the girls listed themselves as minors.

As ApplePi said, Apple IS on an international stage. If the same thing happened to a Pre phone, no one would care.

This is stupid. There is zero difference between using Safari to access a web site to view pictures and this app to access a web site to view pictures.

Jul 02, 09 - 02:48 pm Comment from: MrMcLargeHuge

@Cubert

Yeah, I should really consider changing it. When I created it I meant no sexual innuendo by it, but that's how most people seem to take it. Maybe it was a Freudian slip on my part?

Jul 02, 09 - 04:46 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

In related news


Researchers today announced their conclusions following a study of Monkeys in the wild.

They found the teenage females, in an attempt to mimic their elders and garner attention in their social network, would display poses of a sexual nature.

The belief is that this behavior is done not only for the attention, but to receive a banana from the older males.

One researcher, who is adept at reading the Monkey's sign language, reports that following this activity the older females indicated "if the little byatchs try that chit again, we'll slap them silly."





BC

Jul 02, 09 - 05:11 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"... but to receive a banana from the older males."

That's a rather discrete way to word it.

Jul 02, 09 - 06:18 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Sir Gill

Discretion, as they say, is the better part of what separates porn from Art


"Ars est celare artem et quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur"






BC

Jul 02, 09 - 10:13 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

@ BC Kelly,

Humorous and true.

And I just realized that 'Google Translate' doesn't do Latin.

To the user that said the hot or not app is degrading society: perhaps, perhaps not. Think about this: computer algorithms can tell us which of our relatives are in a stack of unsorted pictures, they can tell us which songs are playing just by listening to a few seconds of audio. Why not tell us whom we would prefer as a potential partner, by looking at pictures of them? How can they do that? With software/programs like "hot or not". Programs like that can be put to use to train algorithms to recognize social norms like attractiveness. By using hot or not, you may actually not be wasting your time--instead you are training it to be smarter. Just like how recaptcha's work--instead of wasting 10 seconds to type in the captcha that appears below my comment here before I can submit it (a turing test, btw, to make sure I'm not a computer), I could also be decyphoring words from an old volume of book made before the turn of the 20th century. It's software like that which will enhance our society, not degrade it.