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Apple has given a controversial app the boot from its iTunes roster
Apple can fly its rainbow colors with pride once again.
After an app went on sale in iTunes by a religious group that claimed it could “heal” homosexuality, Apple has pulled it from their virtual shelves, saying it violated their policy by “being offensive to large groups of people.”
Nearly 150,000 people signed a petition in protest of the app, which was created by Exodus International. The religious group claims they “help” gay people through teachings in the Bible. However, Apple’s guidelines say inappropriate hate speech are in violation of their practices.
Will a "gay cure" app in iTunes spoil Apple for you?
I’m the first to admit that I’m a hypocrite. I don’t let my daughter have a piece of chocolate after dinner if I feel like she hasn’t had enough fruits and vegetables throughout the day, while I might have had nothing leafy or green in a week and eat a sleeve of Girl Scout cookies for lunch.
But she’s only 2 and I know that most of what I say and do along those lines only has a mild affect on her now, particularly because she’s all about her and doesn’t notice if I say one thing and do another. When she gets a little older, wiser and more aware of anyone but herself, I have no doubt I’ll work harder at setting a better example.
A company like Apple, on the other hand, can hardly get away with being two-faced because its audience is very tuned in to what it’s doing — literally. Which is why I find it rather shocking that they would allow a “gay cure” app to be sold on iTunes.
In a move intended to appease women and protect children, Apple has banned all sexy apps from their App Store. Well, almost all of them.
If your are Playboy or Sports Illustrated, your bikini-clad applications are more than welcome in the App Store. But for everyone else, a new decency standard has been put in place that not only bans bikinis, but a whole host of other potentially arousing content. Continue reading »
Parents who let their kids browse the app store with parental controls to protect them might be opening their kids up for some naughty images. The controls have been found to keep kids from purchasing soft-core porn, but that doesn’t mean they can’t preview them.
In a report on Ars Technica last week, it was revealed that even a setting as low as 4+ (ostensibly limiting it to content even a four-year-old can view) only protects the user from actually making a purchase of NSFW images. Continue reading »
Even as Michael Jackson’s death reportedly “broke the Internet,” the downloading craze might have been worse than those of us trying to pull up (or in the case of Babble writers, write up) the latest details.
On Friday morning (just hours after the announcement), MJ had officially taken over the top five spots on iTunes sales. More than one TV anchor pondered what kind of fan didn’t already HAVE Thriller on their playlist. The answer? Continue reading »
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