What's with this Arab/Muslim mentality? What harm can non-pornographic nude photos do to kids?
Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store
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#132As of 4:27 PM MST I can still find this app in the app store.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
The woman was right. Depictions of sex have huge individual and cultural repercussions. Depictions of violence have little to no effect on all but the most borderline of individuals. Porn can really make your life worse. Violence on TV ain't going to.
This sounds more accurate to me: Depictions of sex have little to no effect on all but the most borderline of individuals. Depictions of violence have little to no effect on all but the most borderline of individuals.
This can be a lesson in learning not to trust your instincts then:
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500368_162-1464262.html
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "...have been pulled from the Apple App Store due to concerns about nude photos." Thank god the first-person shooter games are allowed to continue unhindered. We certainly don't want to jeopardize the future of our children by inculcating wrong behaviors.
The sad part is that most parents won't bat an eye while Junior guns down his opponents, but they would be up in arms at the sight of a nipple.
That strongly depends on the country. In the USA, probably. Here in europe there is no problem showing naked breasts in the evening news, when relevant.
However, the US finds mild nudity the most offensive thing ever.
Back on topic: unfortunately Apple applies its US based rules on all content worldwide: I know an app by a huge broadcaster that got rejected based on nudity in an item on, I think, breast cancer. Which is no problem here at al, to show on national TV.
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#135I wonder what a young Steve Jobs would have thought of his App store. The guy who went to India looking for spiritual enlightenment. Forcing a certain level of quality is fine. Protecting users from scamware is also fine. Apple goes far beyond this. They nanny the user and force upon them what Apple perceive is right and wrong. I got my first iMac 5 years ago and I thought Apple were awesome and innovative. Now I jus…
The impression I got at some point was that the reason for the absence of nudity or porn in apps sold on the iOS app store was not to nanny what users do with the device, but rather that Apple/Steve Jobs did not want to be the purveyors of nudity or porn in the same sense that if I owned a news stand I wouldn't want to sell magazines that promoted racism. I can see where the strictness of the current app store in that regard might be in line with the uplifting side of spirituality. Having said that, I'll add that I think there are things about the app store that don't fit with that quest for spiritual enlightenment.
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#136This is good in my opinion. The more the rejection, the more the developers will tend to flee away from arrogant Marketplaces like that of Apple's. It will also, in a way, probably force developers to try out other marketplaces like the Windows Phone Marketplace and the Google Play store. Now, I do understand 500px is trying to create a uni-platform experience for its users, but now that 500px isn't allowed to publis…
I'm not going to argue about whether what they did was right or wrong but I am going to argue about why they make the decisions they do.
A company with a 475B market cap doesn't just do things to be "elitest and a d*ck". I often see these arguments that Apple does things just to be mean or evil but frankly, I think these are emotional responses. There is a more objective reasoning behind why they do the things they do.
From the beginning, Apple has been about presenting a certain "consistency of quality". They want people to equate an Apple product with a product that is free from worries. I get it. You may not agree with it, but I get it. This will naturally piss off 5% of the hard core users who want ultimate flexibility from their platform. But it will also make 95% of the people feel all snugly and warm that they don't need to worry about things like porn or viruses appearing on their device.
Again, I'm not arguing whether 500px's app measures up to "objectional material" or not. What I am arguing is that the reason why Apple removed the app is not because they're trying to be mean but because they have discovered that an app (whether it's had 1,000,00 downloads or 100 downloads) violates the "consistency of quality" that they are trying to present.
Frankly, the 8 year old version of me would have had no difficulty visiting the desktop version of the website and disabling safemode.
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#137Unrelated - but did TC switch off Facebook as their commenting system? This is their first post where I see Livefyre comments instead of Facebook.
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#138I 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…
>I agree, this marketplace approval thing sucks. No what sucks is as a consumer having apps not do what they are supposed to.
Apple's process hasn't succeeded in substantially mitigating that problem.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Instead, the rationale from Apple and defended by you and others is that it is better to make the entire app 17+ Yes, then parents can give the device to children, turn on whatever restrictions based on those ratings, and have it work, even if the kid is trying to get around it by doing all those things. This is not only intended to defeat 5 year olds, but 14 year olds. If 500px would prefer to turn that switch off…
What's the rating on the iOS web browser? 17+? Presumably your hypothetical 4 and 14 year olds would have access to that too? Although I notice that several web browsers in iTunes have 17+ ratings too, so at least they're consistent, maybe. According to https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mercury-browser-fast-web-bro... You must be at least 17 years old to download this app. Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity Freq…
Any app that allows general web access must be given a 17+ rating. This includes any browser, as well as any app that happens to include an integrated browser for another purpose (e.g. a Twitter client that shows links in-app).
As for children having access to the built-in web browser, certainly not if their parents don't think full web access is appropriate for them.
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#140What's with this Arab/Muslim mentality? What harm can non-pornographic nude photos do to kids?
What's with the racist mentality?