“Developer ChilliFresh, creator of the ‘Wobble iBoobs’ application removed from the App Store last week due to ‘numerous complaints’ from users, claimed that a discussion with Apple revealed the company removed more than 5,000 offending applications from the App Store,” Marsal reports. “The total number of removed applications is said to have amounted to roughly 3 percent of the entire App Store.”
MacDailyNews Take: So, for some perspective, since it was so totally lacking in so many quarters for so long: Apple has just thrown out five times the total number of apps available for beleaguered Palm’s webOS today.
Marsal reports, “ChilliFresh claimed that an Apple representative said images of both women and men in bikinis are inappropriate, as are words that have a sexual connotation. Apple allegedly is not allowing applications that can be ‘sexually arousing,’ or that imply sexual content.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We must have missed the press release; when did Apple hire Ed Meese?
So there’s only 135000 apps now.
Again, it’s Apple’s right to not sell an app as it is a physical store’s right not to sell a product. If this offends you so much, don’t buy from the app store.
Actually, I *do* agree about not wanting to see images of men in bikinis.
Good for Apple. They should also purge the fart apps and similar ilk. Far too much junk at the store.
That last MacDailyNews Take screws up my “MDN is a right-wing conspiracy” theory almost as much as facts screwed up our “man-made global warming” get rich quick scheme.
@democratpartyoperative
I catch the sarcasm, but please no politics. Most of us are sick of it.
Everyone censors really.
Disney doesn’t make porno, and Apple wants to make sure that the iTunes store doesn’t have a red light district.
If you own a magazine stand, and you choose not to carry adult material, are you censoring or just telling the general public to go elsewhere for that sort of content?
There must be at least as many religious ones to purge out too…
I agree with Zach. Go away.
Did Marvin Gaye’s song “Sexual Healing” get cut too?
just my $0.02
GOOD!! Apple has the right NOT to peddle porn. It’s Apple’s store, and they can choose what they want to sell. Or should we give up that freedom too??
Good ridance!
Hands up from those who have begun searching for this stuff on iTunes since this initiative by Apple began !!!
I know I have
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Ok, so, Disney hires slave labor, so does apple. Maybe they should purge themselves from the app store?
Do these standards apply to ad dispalyed on free apps? I work at a Catholic girls’ school. I had to remove an application that kept displaying ads with poorly veiled sexual innuendoes from all of the iPod touches we use in out world languages lab. It was a great application, but the ads were offensive.
Getting dark around here!
I guess Apple is going back to the Dark Ages too meet up with the religious nuts already there.
When Apple removes Safari then I’ll worry about missing any intarweb prons.
I think, Jobs does it mainly, bcause of the children using the iphone! Thats certainly an other reason for ditching flash…
CENSORSHIP, 1984 STYLE.
I find it funny that Apple removed some of the apps but not all. I all so find it funny that when Apple needs to have a large number of app’s it was all good. I all so find it funny that it was all good at one point to have on there but now they are getting rid of them I find that very hypocritical of Apple to do that. The people that defend this are really great and you really are fools.
“So, for some perspective, since it was so totally lacking in so many quarters for so long: Apple has just thrown out five times the total number of apps available for beleaguered Palm’s webOS today.”
Which tells you how much total crap is in Apple’s App Store.
Sounds good to me do we really need all that trash on our phones as well as plastered all over the Internet? Bravo Apple!!!!
“Sounds good to me do we really need all that trash on our phones as well as plastered all over the Internet? Bravo Apple!!!!”
Ah, so ‘that trash’ gets on your phone without you having a choice in the matter? Wake up.
There’s an app for that? Not any more apparently, since Apple got so bible-belt puritanical all of a sudden. What’s behind it?
Good riddens apple! I applaud the removal of filth!
Americans are such profound prudes.
My wife and I visited Ibeza, Spain, where women sunbathe topless on the beaches there. It doesn’t take long to get used to it.
My well-traveled friend was at an open-air conference in a park where they had setup some temporary toilets. He thought he was in the “men’s” toilet and was standing at a urinal doing his number when some old Belgian lady wearing a beret came out of one of the stalls. “Bonjour”, she said, as passed by on the way to the exit. Unisex bathrooms. Women sail on by the guys at the urinals to reach the toilet stalls. Yes, men and women hear each others’ ‘plot-plop, fiz-fiz’ in the stall next to each other (don’t sue me if you pass out reading that).
In short, Americans are such damned prudes, I find myself rather embarrassed about this shortcoming. Guess what, America: men and women look at each other in sexual ways and men and women are built differently. No kidding—really.
I know… shock, shock shock.