Oh, the mysteries of the App Store approval process. MiTube, a jailbreak favourite for downloading YouTube videos directly to your iPhone, is currently available in the App Store for free. It even has an iAd. Strange times. [iTunes via 9to5Mac]
Last week, I asked just why Apple has left its Remote App to rot in the App Store, unupdated despite new hardware coming out. The reason? One guy wrote it and now he’s working on other things.
Well, she does have a kind of pretty mouth – but is this image really too sexy for public consumption? According to Apple it is, as the app containing this photo was pulled for being “objectionable”.
Steve Jobs thinks games made with middleware aren’t so good. Unity CEO David Helgason, whose SDK is used in the creation of plenty of games used in the App Store, disagrees. And he was quite vocal about it yesterday.
In 1933, a judge ruled that James Joyce’s Ulysses wasn’t obscene. In 2010, Apple has demanded editorial changes to a Ulysses graphic novel. And to another based on The Importance of Being Earnest. Here are their – only slightly NSFW – reasons. UPDATED.
After a tremendous amount of public backlash, Apple has backed down from their rejection of Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore’s app. His NewsToons app had previously been denied because it “ridicules public figures”, an anti-satire stance that had set a dangerous precedent.
Mark Fiore made a little online history this week by being the first web-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. His editorial cartoons, though, have been blocked from the App Store for violating Apple’s anti-satire provisions. That’s dangerous.
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This is the Dashboard app for iPad. It brings OS X’s dashboard to the iPad. Cool, right? Well, you’re not getting it.
