'Explicit' category coming to App Store?
updated 12:45 pm EST, Wed February 24, 2010
Could solve public criticisms
Apple is about to add an "Explicit" category of software to the App Store, says one developer. The option is said to have recently appeared in iTunes Connect, the system developers use to track and submit iPhone and iPod apps. Particularly as no apps on sale are known to use the label, Apple could be arranging a system which makes "adult" apps once again available, but in some way harder to access for minors.
A major app purge has been underway since last week, removing work that Apple has deemed to be "overtly sexual." Marketing executive Phil Schiller has defended the move, citing complaints from offended women and/or parents. It could seriously damage the livelihood of some developers however, and critics have charged Apple with hypocrisy, as it continues to sell Playboy and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit apps on the grounds of their makers' reputations and acceptance. Most of the banned apps are from smaller, less wealthy and less influential companies.
Obvious
02/24, 01:15pm reply
Seems like the obvious approach.
afaby
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Joined: Jul 2005
Yes.
02/24, 01:21pm reply
Excellent idea. There will be battles about what belongs in the category and what doesn't, but that's to be expected.
Now if we can only get that .x** top-level domain approved...
facebook_Jeff
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Leave it hidden by default
02/24, 01:36pm (1 reply) reply
If the explicit category is hidden by default, then the self righteous complainers will never see the explicit apps and assume they are not there. Win-win.
hayesk
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Joined: Sep 1999
this is a great idea
02/24, 01:43pm reply
Obviously the app store was going to evolve as it grew so this would be the next step. I enjoy adult related content but not needlessly sexual. I hope they will be able to make this distinction maybe in a sub category.
I am also a big supporter of the .x** domain. The way I see it move the $mut from the other domains into .x** and variants of those.
What my kids do after they are 18 is their business, till then i dont want them stumbling on that c***.
Haroscarfel
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x x x
02/24, 02:19pm (1 reply) reply
I always though I good p*** website extension should be .c**
but thats just me!
byRyan
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