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What really bothers me about this particular aspect of the App Store approval process is how hypocritical it is. If Apple wants to make the App Store a clean p
by TheBurningOr 17y ago
What really bothers me about this particular aspect of the App Store approval process is how hypocritical it is. If Apple wants to make the App Store a clean place then that is their prerogative. However, to leave Sports Illustrated Swimsuit apps and sex position apps while talking all high and mighty seems rather hypocritical.
- melling 17y agoAre you asking why Apple allows the same stuff you can find in a Barnes & Nobles but refuses to allow porn? Maybe Steve does the B&N test?
- zacharypinter 17y agoI still think comparing the App Store to physical stores is a flawed analogy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272433 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272433 Jobs emphasizes this by pointing out that Android (or, non-Apple) is the only option available for mobile software if you disagree with Apple's app store policies. Why not allow people to download/install apps outside the App Store? They do own the phone, right?
- fierarul 17y ago>They do own the phone, right? That's just a technicality. They own the phone but for Apple it's more like a subscription: people will buy apps from Apple's AppStore, buy accessories that need Apple's approval (and where Apple gets a cut) and after maximum 3 years upgrade to the next Apple piece of hardware. So the phone purchase isn't an atomic purchase, it's more like the first downpayment to "the Apple experience".
- jasonlotito 17y agoWouldn't want Steve to Think Different, would we?
- troystribling 17y agoBarnes and Noble has porn on their magazine shelves.
- CamperBob 17y agoThe other ridiculous thing about Jobs's position is that, for well over half the world, SI Swimsuit apps are porn. He is using the term as if it had some kind of objective definition, and that makes no sense at all.
- GHFigs 17y agofor well over half the world, SI Swimsuit apps are porn Does the App Store in those countries sell those applications?
- jsz0 17y agoI would guess they're using more of a common sense standard than an absolute standard. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine can be found on any newstand and I don't think it carries any age restrictions (not sure though) and the Karma Sutra is widely stocked in libraries. They are both examples of sexual content that has a broad social mandate to freely exist. There's the issue of quantity of these apps which I think is probably along the lines of a newstand that stocks a few porno magazines is very different from a porno shop.