May 26

Apple – Visionary and open minded or old prude?

Apple bans app over Kama Sutra flap

Apple has rejected the Eucalyptus e-book reader application, which allows users to download novels from the library of Project Gutenberg, which holds copyrights to thousands of classic titles, the Kama Sutra among them.

Apple told Eucalyptus developer James Montgomerie that allowing access to the Kama Sutra violated its software terms and conditions.

Montgomerie has argued that users must search through Eucalyptus, find the Kama Sutra and then download the book to their phones, a process that is currently allowed under other iPhone applications, including Amazon’s Kindle app.

This is just very very sad… a book that has been in existence for Millenia… what’s the harm when you can buy top shelf pornography from any local newsagent…

and talk about screwed up process… apple approved an app which it had to later withdraw after complaints from parents… the app in question… it allowed you to shake a virtual baby to death. Come on Apple… WTF?

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No Responses to “Apple – Visionary and open minded or old prude?”

  1. Marcus Carab Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 12:15 am

    In this case, they are neither. They just have a disjointed, poorly run and inconsistent app approval process. I’m pretty sure they have figured this out by now, so hopefully they do something about it soon.

  2. d_noodle Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Agree in part… and yes hopefully they will sort it out soon… but to turn down an app due to it being a rather tame book. One that you can get in a Public Library…

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