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Apple Removed A Photo App From The App Store Because Artistic Nudity Is Bad
500px, one of the best iPad apps for finding great pictures, was pulled from the App Store today because Apple is Tobias Funke never nude-levels of prudish when it comes to the naked body. Apparently, the app made it too easy to find pictures with nudity in them so it got kicked out.
The Government Submitted A Stupid App To Apple Seemingly On Purpose
Remember the Cyber-Safety Help Button? You might remember it as Conroy’s Big Red Button that when pushed, directed kids to a website that told them how to stay safe online. It was a poorly thought out initiative to say the least, but wait until you hear what the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy did next.
Apple’s Mobile App Store Is Back After Huge Outage
After an outage spanning almost 24-hours, the Apple App Store is back on your iDevices. Apple users weren’t able to view the App Store, update or download new apps to their handsets, unless they connected it to a computer during the outage. Now though, you should be once again able to access the App Store.
The Apple In-App Purchases Hack Will Be Dead In iOS 6
Late last week, Apple told developers that they’d have to use a workaround in their apps to prevent the in-app purchasing hack — which lets users avoid paying for in-app purchases — but that the same solution would also be rolled in iOS 6 as standard. Now, Alexey Borodin, the Russian behind the discovery, claims the workaround is impossible to hack.
Free For All: The Mac App Store’s In-App Purchasing Has Been Hacked Too
Alexey Borodin, the programmer responsible for the iOS App Store hack earlier this month has managed to repeat his success on Apple’s Mac App Store. The hack allows users to make in-app purchases from the service without paying for them.
Apple Has Fixed The App Store Bug That Has Been Crashing Your Apps
If you’ve been trying to update your iOS apps and games over the last 24-48 hours and found that they’ve gone over all crashtacular, it’s because of a bug in the way the App Store pushed DRM to its apps.
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