Apple isn't usually very elaborate when it comes to App Store rejections. But according to Gigaom, one developer was recently led to believe that while Apple wouldn't approve his overly-risque app right now, it might allow the app once iPhone 3.0 was made publicly available.
The app in question is Makayama's Newspaper, an aggregator that compiles international newspapers into a single feed. The problem? One of the newspapers being funneled into the app was popular U.K. daily The Sun, which frequently features topless women in one of its sections.
Apple rejected the inclusion of The Sun, but also told the developers that they could resubmit the app once iPhone 3.0 is allowed--presumably because the new OS would have improved parental control features that would allow some users to view adult content.
Apple has become increasingly lax lately about apps that feature bikini-clad models and other sub-pornographic fare. With better parental controls, a wave of adult-only iPhone apps could be on the way.
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[Via Gigaom]
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May 21, 2009 at 12:47pm by Sondra Sneed
great. another way to hook teens and adult addicts, only now they're not going to be at home shut up in their office but all over the place - not really communing with real life but sucking on the exhaust of it. is nothing immune from xxx splatter? could we at least have an app that blocks it from the kids first? what about blocking my iPod's safari from my teenage son?
can you give parent's a break? it's not like when we were kids where we just looked at national geographic and the sear's catalogue for lingerie - i have media portals all over this house and it's impossible to keep up.