Ah, the horror – imagine spending hours and hours of developer time on an app only to get it rejected by Apple due to some of the content provided by a popular newspaper. Sounds mad…but has just happened to a developer going by the name Makayama.
His application Newspaper(s) downloads content from 50 newspaper web sites: one of them was the popular British tabloid The Sun. Unfortunately, the newspaper ran a topless photo while the app was reviewed…which led to a rejection with the following quote:
…Parental Controls have been announced for iPhone Os 3.0, adding that it “would be appropriate to resubmit your application for review once this feature is available.”
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Let’s face it: porn (or the lack thereof) has decided more than one console/format war in the past. Small porn sites manage to achieve Alexa ranks mobile computing web sites can only dream of…and the revenue probably goes along the same lines.
Apple has little to loose by allowing porn into its platform as long as minors and sensitive audiences can be shielded effectively – which is what IOS 3.0 is likely to do…
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