Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by pyre » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:32 PM UTC

endgame wrote: post #6

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

500px's business model isn't based around an iOS app. It's supplemental to their service. View your comment in the context of the following headline:

  Apple Pulls iOS Flickr App from AppStore

Building an App for iOS isn't the same as basing your business model around playing in someone else's sandbox.

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

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Post by samtp » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:33 PM UTC

I've never bought into whats so bad about a naked body. We all have one.

From what I understand people get scared/agitated about nuditity because it makes humans seem more a part of nature, savage, and wild. People want to think of humanity as on a pedestal above "beasts". Still, this is a very strange aspect of our society

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

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Post by georgemcbay » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:33 PM UTC

myko wrote: post #2

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

They don't have to justify it.

That's the danger of mandatory locked-down app curation.

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

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Post by twoodfin » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:33 PM UTC

akashshah wrote: post #4

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

Chrome is already listed as 17+, presumably for this very reason.

What was the 500px app's rating?

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

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Post by Peroni » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:34 PM UTC

myko wrote: post #2

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

Exactly. NSFW content (and a hell of a lot worse) is instantly accessible via any of the Reddit apps. Why not pull those too?

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

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Post by sp332 » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:34 PM UTC

luney wrote: post #5

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!

Apple's response has always been: if you want content on iOS that we don't allow, make a web app. The App store is not a public place; Apple only puts things there that they like.

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

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Post by elliottkember » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:34 PM UTC

This is exactly why I use my phone in airplane mode.

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

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Post by burningion » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

I recently launched an App for the iPhone for the first time ever. And the approval process can be ridiculous.

In my case, my meditation app allowed the user to optionally measure their heart rate while meditating with a heart rate monitor.

When I submitted for the App Store, I had to wait a week to find out I'd been rejected because they didn't have a heart rate monitor to test my app. It works without it.

And never mind there are literally hundreds of apps which also incorporate the Bluetooth LE heart rate monitors. Apple wanted me to send them one, so I ended up overnighting them one, only to have them take another week to let me know they'd taken a look at my app, then approved it.

I agree, this marketplace approval thing sucks.

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

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Post by twoodfin » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

Peroni wrote: post #15

myko wrote: post #2

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

Exactly. NSFW content (and a hell of a lot worse) is instantly accessible via any of the Reddit apps. Why not pull those too?

Alien Blue is also listed as 17+.

Was 500px's app?

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

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Post by diziet » Tue, Jan 22, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

Funnily enough, Apple had their own snafu with app store searches for lewd words showing up kid's apps like Disney's apps: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/11/15/dirty-wor...