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

by myko 14y ago

loceng 14y ago
Someone is better friends with Apple? Possibly Facebook?
elemeno 14y ago
I would assume that someone made a complaint to Apple, which then forces Apple to take action and investigate - at that point there's likely a procedure that they need to follow mandated by Apple's Legal department for how it gets handled.
- FireBeyond 14y ago
  Apple is "forced" to do no such thing, any more than a parent can't sue Comcast because her son found a nude picture on the Internet.
georgemcbay 14y ago
They don't have to justify it. That's the danger of mandatory locked-down app curation.
Peroni 14y ago
Exactly. NSFW content (and a hell of a lot worse) is instantly accessible via any of the Reddit apps. Why not pull those too?
- twoodfin 14y ago
  Alien Blue is also listed as 17+. Was 500px's app?
  - tchebotarev 14y ago
    It was 12+, because default experience is always 'SAFE ON'.
    - jmreid 14y ago
      Can someone upload a nude photo and not flag it as a nude? Do you guys check this before it gets published? If not, Apple might not care that the default is "Safe On" when someone can either disable it easily (outside of iOS's parental controls), or the tagging is inconsistent.
      - tchebotarev 14y ago
        Yes they can. Although there are special tools to discourage non-tagged or improperly tagged photos. We don't check, but our community self-monitors and reacts very quickly (few minutes at most).
        jmreid 14y ago
        Well, you can see Apple's side of this, no? You're basically saying that you don't deserve the mature, "internet app rating" because your users as usually pretty quick at flagging things or that you have a safe default to catch the rest (which can be turned off by creating a 500px account and just turning it off). Both of these subvert Apple's built in parental controls and I'm guessing that's exactly why this happened. If there's a chance of mature stuff, you have to set your rating correctly. Everyone already got all bothered about this ages ago. Apps that had built in web views had to set a mature rating because a user could then surf the web even if Safari was disabled. I guess this comes down to what they've asked (yet?) of you. Can you resubmit the app with a higher age-restiction?
    - gte910h 14y ago
      500px's app in the google cache was 4+
gte910h 14y ago
This was rated safe for 4+ year olds. Flipboard is not.

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

by myko 14y ago

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

loceng 14y ago

Someone is better friends with Apple? Possibly Facebook?

elemeno 14y ago

I would assume that someone made a complaint to Apple, which then forces Apple to take action and investigate - at that point there's likely a procedure that they need to follow mandated by Apple's Legal department for how it gets handled.

FireBeyond 14y ago
Apple is "forced" to do no such thing, any more than a parent can't sue Comcast because her son found a nude picture on the Internet.

georgemcbay 14y ago

They don't have to justify it. That's the danger of mandatory locked-down app curation.

Peroni 14y ago

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

twoodfin 14y ago
Alien Blue is also listed as 17+. Was 500px's app?
- tchebotarev 14y ago
  It was 12+, because default experience is always 'SAFE ON'.
  - jmreid 14y ago
    Can someone upload a nude photo and not flag it as a nude? Do you guys check this before it gets published? If not, Apple might not care that the default is "Safe On" when someone can either disable it easily (outside of iOS's parental controls), or the tagging is inconsistent.
    - tchebotarev 14y ago
      Yes they can. Although there are special tools to discourage non-tagged or improperly tagged photos. We don't check, but our community self-monitors and reacts very quickly (few minutes at most).
      - jmreid 14y ago
        Well, you can see Apple's side of this, no? You're basically saying that you don't deserve the mature, "internet app rating" because your users as usually pretty quick at flagging things or that you have a safe default to catch the rest (which can be turned off by creating a 500px account and just turning it off). Both of these subvert Apple's built in parental controls and I'm guessing that's exactly why this happened. If there's a chance of mature stuff, you have to set your rating correctly. Everyone already got all bothered about this ages ago. Apps that had built in web views had to set a mature rating because a user could then surf the web even if Safari was disabled. I guess this comes down to what they've asked (yet?) of you. Can you resubmit the app with a higher age-restiction?
  - gte910h 14y ago
    500px's app in the google cache was 4+

gte910h 14y ago

This was rated safe for 4+ year olds. Flipboard is not.