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Apple Rejects Another eBook Reader App For "Explicit Content"

Submitted by Edward Kirk on May 22, 2009 - 4:28pm.
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Apple is drawing bad publicity once again for controversially denying yet another app for "explicit content", even though the content in question can be accessed on the internet and even by other apps in the App Store. App developer Jamie Montgomerie explained in an entry on his blog that his eBook reader app, Eucalyptus, has been repeatedly denied getting published in the App Store due to it's ability to access the Kama Sutra.

Jamie explains:

“The exact book (the Kama Sutra) that Apple considers the ability to read ‘objectionable’ is freely available on the iPhone in many ways already. You can find it through Safari or the Google app of course, but it is also easily available via other book reading apps. You can get it easily via eReader, though the search process is handled by launching a third-party site in Safari, with the download and viewing taking place in eReader. Stanza offers up multiple versions, some with illustrated covers. Amazon’s Kindle app, the latest version of which was approved by Apple this week, offers multiple versions too - although it does charge from 80¢ to $10 per book - and you again purchase via Safari before Kindle downloads the book.”

He has since updated the app to block the Kama Sutra and re-submitted it, at Apple's request.

[via iLounge]

Submitted by Stephen007 on May 23, 2009 - 6:27pm.
I actually feel bad for Apple. They appear to be in an unwinnable situation.

On the one hand they could let everything into the store but then there would arguably be all sorts of news articles about the pornography etc. that Apple is exposing all the children too. This would be bad PR with the general public.

On the other hand they can try to police all this themselves which is difficult when things are close calls.

Apple needs to grow up

Submitted by iPhoneManiac on May 24, 2009 - 3:15am.
Apple is becoming quite the joke with their application approval process.

Here is a perfectly reasonable application that, just like Safari, can be used to read one too many books. I even understand that the Mail application on the iPhone can be used to receive a copy of the book, and it can be used to forward a copy of the book.

Quicktime can be used to play all sorts of movies, including presumably various self-help Kama Sutra videos

I suspect the Kindle application can be used to read some books that not all should be reading. In fact, check it out, the Kama Sutra itself is available for the Kindle...
  • Sex and the Perfect Lover: Tao, Tantra, and the Kama Sutra by Mabel Iam (Kindle Edition - Nov 17, 2005) - Kindle Book
  • Tantra & Kama Sutra Sex Positions by Al Link and Pala Copeland (Kindle Edition - May 11, 2007) - Kindle Book
  • Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana by Vatsayayana (Translated By: Sir Richard F. Burton) (Kindle Edition - Jan 8, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • Undead Kama Sutra, The by Mario, Acevedo (Kindle Edition - Mar 11, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • Kama Sutra (With Pictures of Sex Positions) by Michelle (Kindle Edition - Dec 15, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra by Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - Jan 24, 2009) - Kindle Book
  • Kama Sutra by Richard Burton (translation) (Kindle Edition - Mar 14, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (Kindle Edition - Feb 3, 2009) - Kindle Book
  • Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana, Jon E. Noring, Exotic India, and Sir Richard F. Burton (Kindle Edition - Sep 6, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana (Full Text Translation by Sir Richard Burton -1883) by Vatsyayana, Mr. L. Rx, and Sir Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - Oct 3, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana by Sir Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - Mar 28, 2009) - Kindle Book
  • Le Kama Soutra (Kama Sutra) (French Edition) by Regles de l'amour de Vatsyayana (Morale des Brahmanes) (Kindle Edition - Jan 4, 2005) - Kindle Book
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra by Johanina Wikoff and Deborah Romaine (Kindle Edition - May 9, 2000) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana - How to Make Love Using Sensual Pleasure and Sexual desire by Sir Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - Mar 1, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana by Vatsayayana and Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - Dec 31, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • Kama Sutra by Vatsayayana (Kindle Edition - Jul 6, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSYAYANA by Old School (Kindle Edition - Mar 21, 2009) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana and Sir Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - Dec 18, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana and Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - May 8, 2009) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana. Published by MobileReference (mobi). by Vatsyayana (Kindle Edition - Feb 16, 2009) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Richard Burton and Margot Anand (Kindle Edition - Dec 18, 2007) - Kindle Book
  • New Kama Sutra Tales by Douglas Macauley (Kindle Edition - Jan 19, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • Exotica: Seven Days of Kama Sutra, Nine Days of Arabian Nights by Eden Bradley (Kindle Edition - Dec 26, 2007) - Kindle Book
  • Kama Sutra Cadillac by Charles Hugh Smith (Kindle Edition - Aug 1, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (Kindle Edition - Jul 1, 2004) - Kindle Book
  • Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volumes I, II, III, IV, V, and VI by Havelock Ellis (Kindle Edition - Mar 28, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • KAMASUTRA (The Original Uncut 1st Edition) by VATSYAYANA and TFTPG (Kindle Edition - April 25, 2009) - Kindle Book
  • The Priapeia by Various, L. C. Smithers, and Sir Richard Burton (Kindle Edition - Feb 15, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • Venus In India, Or Love Adventures In Hindustan Vol 1 & 2 by Captain C. Deveraux (Kindle Edition - Aug 17, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefwazi by Shaykh Nefwazi (Kindle Edition - April 8, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • LADIES OF THE NIGHT: A Historical and Personal Perspective on the Oldest Profession in the World by Gene Simmons (Kindle Edition - Dec 9, 2008) - Kindle Book
  • Sexual Ecstasy from Ancient Wisdom by Summum Bonum Amen Ra (Kindle Edition - April 20, 2009) - Kindle Book

Now that I think about it the iPhone camera could even be used to, well, you get the idea...

Apple needs to grow up. There are more things of interest in this world than fart applications.