Apple changed its “sexy app” policy of App Store, and coming right after is a huge war of words, only then I truly understand how large the apple users are and how many eyes have set tightly on Apple!
So here’s the story: Apple’s hypocrisy with regard to the App Store is something that has been arguable for long. Just last year, many works were set about Apple allowing apps like “Asian Boobs” and “upskirt apps” into the App Store while rejecting things such as “satirical” apps which mocked public figures. Ridiculous as it is! So when this new “sexy app” policy comes up, we’re actually all aware of a “war”.
Who woulda thunk that Apple’s new shift in App Store policy – the one that now has them banning ‘overtly sexual’ apps from the store – would end up causing controversy, ridicule, and daft decisions and decision reversals when it comes to individual apps affected by it?
Sure enough, just a few days after the new policy started being put into practice it is causing lots of controversy and, in typical App Store style, providing some fine entertainment due to dopey decisions in applying it. Just today, there’s already so many of the things in this area at TechCrunch, Gizmodo…ect.
To be honest, I do see some people (very few though) is actually happy about this new policy, but much more I’ve got are rejections, reversals, and plenty of criticism, and I managed to notice that most of these are coming from the fact that Apple is now rejecting and removing sexy apps from the App Store, but not all the them! And then here comes the question: Who gets to stay? Big publishers like Sports Illustrated and Playboy. In fact, not only is Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit 2010 app not being removed, it’s being featured in the App Store. Both it and the Playboy app clearly violate the new rules of the more prudish App Store, yet they get to stay. Why? I think that just touched some kind of sensitive region of social problem, which makes a start of the war!
These are just one day’s worth of fun and games generated by this latest App Store policy shift. I’m pretty sure there will be plenty more of this kind of news over coming weeks, most likely ends only until whenever the next switch or adjustment to this policy comes. So there surly will be more spits and the war continues, as usual. Just be prepared.
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