macworld.com — Recently, Apple rejected the iPhone app Eucalyptus entry into the company's App Store. The reason: the e-book reader, which can search the 20,000-plus item classic library of Project Gutenberg, "contains inappropriate sexual content" by allowing access to works such as The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana...
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Closed AccountMay 24, 2009
How f**king hard would it be to implement a content rating system. They already have it for movies, tv shows, music. What's the big f**king problem? Just implement it and end this censorship. Safari will be rated R for access to possible adult content, and we can all move on.
hardeep1singhMay 25, 2009
You happen to be in Apple section right now. If you don't give a damn, there are many other sections to look at.
theyoshiMay 25, 2009
Out of curiosity does no one else think there is some basic algorithm that is going on here that "bans" apps and it isn't really a human per se? Think about the number of apps being submitted on a constant basis, I love how everyone makes it out to be some ridiculous control scheme and then assumes it got overturned due to public outcry. I for one think it likely got overturned because as a human being looked at it the realization was made that a computer could not make.
barynMay 25, 2009
Good to see that whining is the currency of the App Store.f**k Apple, forever. They will never get majority market share in anything besides mobile devices, and even that will dwindle steadily.
mrbitchMay 26, 2009
In case anyone is wondering what Eucalyptus actually looks like :<a class="user" href="http://bit.ly/iphoneEucalyptus">http://bit.ly/iphoneEucalyptus</a>Now, click on "Search Like a Librarian", and prepare to be blown away by the sheer beauty of the UI.