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Like every decision Apple makes, this has everything to do with business and nothing to do with censorship or misogyny. Apple intends the iPhone/iPod/iPad to be

by mojombo 17y ago

Like every decision Apple makes, this has everything to do with business and nothing to do with censorship or misogyny. Apple intends the iPhone/iPod/iPad to be something that everyone on the planet owns. To do that, they think that creating an app store that isn't riddled with pasties and swimsuit apps on every Top 50 list will improve their chances of meeting that goal. It's the same reason they review every app. It reduces the chance that the average user will become frustrated with the apps they are downloading. Their market is NOT just computer-savvy programmers like us, it's the entire planet's population. If you keep that in mind, you'll start to see some logic in the decisions that Apple makes. Those decisions aren't necessarily what you or I want, but they do tend to be what will make the mobile experience the simplest, best, and least offensive for the population at large.

silencio 17y ago
> It reduces the chance that the average user will become frustrated with the apps they are downloading. What, like non-adult apps are all examples of mindblowingly good developer talent and design? There are unbelievably awful apps on the store that got past the review process (can you even call that a review process anymore? riddled with issues and reviewers actually not opening apps...) that are crash happy, ugly as sin, useless and more. Where's the problem with adult content that makes that more likely to happen? > Apple intends the iPhone/iPod/iPad to be something that everyone on the planet owns. It's called ratings and parental controls. It's called Apple can redesign the app store. It's called requiring an Apple ID with credit card and birth date to see adult-rated apps in their own hidden category. Apple already sells softcore porn/erotica in the form of many TV shows and movies, and already sells explicit songs. People can still use browsers and other apps to gain access to adult content. If people are happy enough with parental controls/ratings for that, what's the deal with apps? Apple can fix this on their end instead of removing all these apps. > Like every decision Apple makes, this has everything to do with business The business behind the top 10/25/50 list in any category is tantamount to a lot of money. > It's the same reason they review every app. Too bad Apple suffers from indecisiveness and a lack of consistency. That's the problem here. As I've mentioned many times on HN before, the bigger issue is that Apple was okay enough with these to review and approve them and to come up with ratings and controls for apps, but then on a whim decided to pull them - and wasn't even consistent there. What's next? It's definitely their marketplace and their device, but a growing number of developers will become discontent, and Apple will suffer without them.

by mojombo 17y ago

silencio 17y ago

> It reduces the chance that the average user will become frustrated with the apps they are downloading. What, like non-adult apps are all examples of mindblowingly good developer talent and design? There are unbelievably awful apps on the store that got past the review process (can you even call that a review process anymore? riddled with issues and reviewers actually not opening apps...) that are crash happy, ugly as sin, useless and more. Where's the problem with adult content that makes that more likely to happen? > Apple intends the iPhone/iPod/iPad to be something that everyone on the planet owns. It's called ratings and parental controls. It's called Apple can redesign the app store. It's called requiring an Apple ID with credit card and birth date to see adult-rated apps in their own hidden category. Apple already sells softcore porn/erotica in the form of many TV shows and movies, and already sells explicit songs. People can still use browsers and other apps to gain access to adult content. If people are happy enough with parental controls/ratings for that, what's the deal with apps? Apple can fix this on their end instead of removing all these apps. > Like every decision Apple makes, this has everything to do with business The business behind the top 10/25/50 list in any category is tantamount to a lot of money. > It's the same reason they review every app. Too bad Apple suffers from indecisiveness and a lack of consistency. That's the problem here. As I've mentioned many times on HN before, the bigger issue is that Apple was okay enough with these to review and approve them and to come up with ratings and controls for apps, but then on a whim decided to pull them - and wasn't even consistent there. What's next? It's definitely their marketplace and their device, but a growing number of developers will become discontent, and Apple will suffer without them.