IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes
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IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes
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#2The app looks extremely well made, really a shame it has been pulled out of the stores.
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#3Nice job Apple and Google, nice job.
If I were in charge, person who made the call would be out of job.
And if this was "company" decision, well, good luck to you all, and move to Europe. We love brunettes here.
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#4Nice job Apple and Google, nice job. If I were in charge, person who made the call would be out of job. And if this was "company" decision, well, good luck to you all, and move to Europe. We love brunettes here.
Apple has consistently proven that they want the App Store to be squeaky Disney family clean. So the fact that some apps went through the cracks was pure luck.
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#5The problem is that "app approval" does not scale well, for a very simple reason: it is hard. Applying guidelines like the ones Apple uses, requires a very skilled individual that is able to evaluate at the same time a set of rules in a flexible way, and really understand if the app is good for the apple store or not. You can do that if you have a team of 20. Finding 300 people doing this work very well is going to be very hard, and you need to pay more as this must be people that at the same time understand design, programming (if you read the rules thare are many that without understanding of software are hard to apply), and at the same time able to find a good balance between flexibility and severity. Not an easy task at all.
Maybe they could improve the process with the following schema:
* Instead of doing a single longer review, a few of your approval team will review the app briefly, and provide a score between 1 and 5 of "acceptability".
* If the score is 4 or 5, go forward. If the score is Optionally also discard the app if the average score is <= 1.5 if there are problems with the "load" of the experts.
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#6Nice job Apple and Google, nice job. If I were in charge, person who made the call would be out of job. And if this was "company" decision, well, good luck to you all, and move to Europe. We love brunettes here.
Apple has consistently proven that they want the App Store to be squeaky Disney family clean. So the fact that some apps went through the cracks was pure luck.
But why? WHY?
What harm could come from app like this?
Please, assume that I'm 12 years old, and try to explain.
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#8Nice job Apple and Google, nice job. If I were in charge, person who made the call would be out of job. And if this was "company" decision, well, good luck to you all, and move to Europe. We love brunettes here.
Apple has consistently proven that they want the App Store to be squeaky Disney family clean. So the fact that some apps went through the cracks was pure luck.
Considering the app has been in the top paid apps charts for years, it probably wasn't a crack that let it in.
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#9The trouble is that the guidelines aren't black and white. They are somewhat grey. This means that 2 reviews will rarely result in the same action.
I would argue the Kama Sutra is both historical and educational and not sexually explicit at all. Perhaps a celebration of human bodies even, I don't know.
It seems though that Apple particularly feel that its customers require a squeaky clean filter to assess everything they access.
For cloned and low quality app's this is great! Restricting porn... I guess it is a good thing. Kid's can browse the app store. However this grey area between what is clean and what isn't is something they have never mastered.
It is really sad to see Google following this path of over-censorship..
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple has consistently proven that they want the App Store to be squeaky Disney family clean. So the fact that some apps went through the cracks was pure luck.
But why? WHY? What harm could come from app like this? Please, assume that I'm 12 years old, and try to explain.
Let me try:
your parents are paying for your iPhone and they don't want you to have a Kama Sutra app :)