With all of the fuss going on lately about Apple being so strict on their guidelines or even unclear regarding their App Store approval process, you would think that they would start to rethink their process. Especially after the other day AT&T announced they will start to allow VOIP applications on their network over 3G.
Well today I read one of my favorite e-card companies, Someecard had their iPhone application rejected because of “defaming” famous people. From the Someecards blog:
Imagine the horror we felt to learn our iPhone app wasn’t rejected for some sort of horribly off-color dildo joke. That is, unless the App Store just randomly chose three not-that-objectionable cards as examples of unacceptable content (see below). Are we really being told we can’t “defame” famous people? Even Hitler? Let us know what you think of the notification below.
Wow Apple. What a way to promote free speech. Things like this are what make me now want to write iPhone applications more and more each day.
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mikey added these pithy words on Oct 07 09 at 12:10 pmTo be fair, the cards in question were VERY offensive…
(…to pedophiles, anti-semites, and racists)
Robert Schultz added these pithy words on Oct 07 09 at 1:02 pm@Mikey:
That’s what the mature iPhone rating is for and parental controls. So should we also ban songs from iTunes that have racist or derogatory lyrics?
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