Holier than Thou Apple rejects Jesus App
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Thanks to never ending free PR and advertising, courtesy of hordes of adoring lamescream media Macolytes — and the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field, of course — Apple continues to prosper.
If corporations are people, and that’s the legal reality, Apple is as scurvy a knave as ever there was — ask the 16 teenagers it hung out to dry in front of a SuperBowl crowd as part of the infamous RIAA / Pepsi / iTunes promotion.
But no matter.
Now Apple has gone holier than thou.
“Me So Holy allows users to put their faces within a religious figure, add a message and send via email or upload directly to facebook,” says a new iPhone app.
Not so fast, says Apple.
Yesterday, “we received a rejection letter from Apple,” says the site, going on
According to Apple, Me So Holy contains objectionable content and is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states:
Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple`s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.
You may be familiar with recent snafus over the baby shaker app and the rejection of the Nine Inch Nails apps. Our question is, is religion really to be placed in the same category as these violent apps? Sex, urine and defecation don`t seem to be off-limits, yet a totally non-violent, religion-based app is.
We feel that Apple is being too sensitive to its perceived user group and are disappointed that this otherwise creative, freethinking company would reject such a positive and fun application. The message to developers is that they should think inside the box, rather than outside it.
“Apple” and “reasonable judgement” in the same sentence. Hmmmm
If it was Muhammed in the pic, there’d be hell to pay.
So maybe Apple is simply protecting itself against attacks by militant Christians.
May, 2009
hung out to dry – Pepsi-iTunes Super Bowl ad blasted, January 31, 2004
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May 12th, 2009 at 9:19 am
If you are in Australia, join the Australian Sex Party before it is too late. Wowsers are dangerous and must be stopped from imposing their beliefs on everyone.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:17 am
I respect Apple for this.