Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by 3pt14159 » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 7:49 PM UTC

Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store
techcrunch.com

Re: Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by myko » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:22 PM UTC

This is just silly. How does Apple justify pulling this vs Flipboard/Currents?

Re: Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by loceng » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:26 PM UTC

myko wrote: post #2

This is just silly. How does Apple justify pulling this vs Flipboard/Currents?

Someone is better friends with Apple? Possibly Facebook?

Re: Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by akashshah » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:26 PM UTC

Why don't they pull the Chrome app because I can turn the default safe search off and search for porn?

Re: Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by luney » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:27 PM UTC

Well I was going to write: Time to pull safari

But then I checked tech crunch's comments and it seems that I would be very unoriginal. Same goes for any of the other apps mentioned...

So to trump them all:

Time to disable the internet!

Re: Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by endgame » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:27 PM UTC

Oh look, one of these stories again. Why do people keep building on this pile of shifting sand?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:27 PM UTC

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Post by elemeno » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:28 PM UTC

myko wrote: post #2

This is just silly. How does Apple justify pulling this vs Flipboard/Currents?

I would assume that someone made a complaint to Apple, which then forces Apple to take action and investigate - at that point there's likely a procedure that they need to follow mandated by Apple's Legal department for how it gets handled.

Re: Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by SCdF » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:29 PM UTC

This is fairly absurd, any app that allows user generated content (including, dun dun dun, Safari) allows young precious eyes previously untouched by the horrors of boobies to be exposed so dangerously.

Still, this is a bit like writing a twitter app and then being sad when they flip their API on you.

Apple runs the game, they get to set the rules. If that bothers you, don't make iOS apps. I imagine if enough people did that, they may get the message.

Re: Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

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Post by kryptiskt » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:31 PM UTC

"...have been pulled from the Apple App Store due to concerns about nude photos."

The horror. It's a blessing the web came along before app stores became trendy. Now at least there's a huge vibrant world outside the walled gardens.