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CP on your iPhone via an Apple-approved app? You betcha!
Yes, we've been over the App Store approval thing a hundred times already, but never quite like this.Apple's got a pretty strong policy when it comes to nudity, right? Right?
So Beauty Meter - an application that allows, hypothetically, a fifteen year old girl to share a nude pic to be rated would be totally out of the question right?
You'd at least expect there to be a nudity warning if you installed an app like this. I mean, it could be a non-nude hot-or-not app, there's certainly a precedent for that. In the case of Beauty Meter, however, you'll just get a warning that it might contain mature content and it's not for use by anyone under the age of 17.
Heck, in some countries 17 isn't even old enough to look at naughty things.
Now, clearly neither Apple nor the devs behind Beauty Meter can totally control who uploads what (the app even says as much when you launch it), but it makes me wonder: if an app like this can be approved, why not Drivetrain?
It's remote control for Transmission. It doesn't actually do any torrent downloading. There's no way anything it does is remotely illegal. It's pretty similar to a single-app MochaVNC, which has been in the store for ages, and I can certainly use to control Transmission from my iPod. But I digress.
Three things for certain: Beauty Meter will soon suffer the same fate as Hottest Girls, the approval process needs an overhaul, and the screenshot at Krapps is going to live in Internet infamy for a long time.
[via Krapps - thanks, @thmonline!]
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wrs589 said 6:20PM on 7-01-2009
Either way, I'll be downloading it.
Thanks for the tip!
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Thomas Maier said 6:51PM on 7-01-2009
haha, this was necessary. Nice bash :P
The HAAAAS to be a better policy with appstore approvals, but Apple keeps silent.
As far as I have seen, the picture (which is everywhere illegal because of children pornography) has been removed now.
http://twitter.com/thmonline/status/2425455263
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66sweep said 9:11PM on 7-01-2009
annnnd its gone.
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Iced_Eagle said 9:26PM on 7-01-2009
Removed from the store.
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Molly said 10:03PM on 7-01-2009
Sex sells!
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Arsenal6 said 2:03AM on 7-02-2009
SHE NOT 16! loll
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Jash Sayani said 7:33AM on 7-02-2009
Just what I was going to write! She is not 15, she is sweet 16 !!
Maff said 3:42AM on 7-02-2009
I see you keep reviewing and talking about iPhone apps, please can you stop being so shortsighted and look at other smartphones too
for example, do a review or preview of this software for Android:
http://fbandroid.wordpress.com/
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