Apple Censorship Reaches New Level of Stupid: Daisy Mae Pulled (FNAR!)

SHIELD YOUR EYES! Apple considers this game too racy for iPhone and iPod touch owners!

UPDATE: Daisy Mae has returned to the App Store. It is unclear what if any changes have been made to the game. The game is currently rated 12+.

Nicole posted on the 19th that Apple is pulling ‘sexy’ apps, due to deciding that it’s operating out of a fictional puritanical Victorian utopia, rather than the USA. While Apple’s making the case by saying it doesn’t want porn on the iPhone, it’s now decided that ironic cartoon smut within a videogame is also a step too far. Yes, Touch Arcade reports that IUGO’s Daisy Mae has been unceremoniously pulled from the App Store, because—SHOCK!—it features a sassy cartoon woman with a penchant for short shorts as the lead character. Seriously.

***SARCASM WARNING!*** You know, Apple should really deal with this by coming up with some kind of system on the App Store for rating content, so you know whether an app is suitable for someone of a certain age. That would deal with games like this that you don’t want to warp fragile little minds (even though they almost certainly wouldn’t, because any kid with an iPhone who wants to look at boobs just needs to use APPLE’S OWN SAFARI)! ***END OF SARCASM WARNING!***

So, iPhone developers, the message is clear: don’t have any women in your apps unless they’re covered in some kind of burqa-style clothing, otherwise Steve and Tim and Phil will kill it until it’s dead (with virtual knives, guns, bombs and death-rays, all of which are fine, unless they are associated with any kind of vaguely risque clothing that’s within forty feet). And don’t even think of a game startting Jessica Rabbit, unless you turn her into an actual rabbit.

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Letter to Apple Feedback:
I do have to say that the only issue that I’ve really had up until now with an Apple decision was when Steve Jobs was ousted. I’ve been a user of Apple products since the 1980s and two recent noteworthy items have caused me some angst lately.
1) iAD. I buy your products because I don’t want to be bothered with interoperability issues, unrefined user interfaces, and unpolished and clunky applications. I don’t know the extent that iAD is going to annoy users, but I have a feeling that it could be huge. I don’t like the fact that Safari can’t control Flash ads despite the fact that you hate Flash (hence products like PithHelmet). Similarly, making it easier for app owners to stream advertisements into applications (especially the browser) is going to make our calm internet experience a cause stress and anxiety. Check your blood pressure before and after you turn flash on and off on some news pages and you’ll see. While I know you’re competing with Google in that department and many sites depend upon advertisements, easing the delivery of visually disruptively content will drive people where such content can be managed more easily by the end user. Having said that, I won’t mind it if you don’t censor a 3rd party application that blocks such advertisements.
2) Censorship. Apple makes and controls application delivery to the iPhone, iTouch and now iPad products, just as it does with music and iTunes. The AppStore is a great idea to bring mini applications to end users like myself. Like I mentioned with iAD, we end users want the ability to control our own viewing experience. When you start playing Censorship Police, you start down a slippery slope. You mark iTunes delivered music that might be offensive or contain profanity with “Explicit”. The recent notice that you banned a satire cartoonist’s application for potentially ‘defamatory’ content is ridiculous. Are you going to start censoring content of web sites that people bring up that might also be offensive? And to whom? Are you going to follow Google to China there? I hope you see where I’m going with this unless the $ signs have censored your ability to let end users think for themselves.
henry
It’s interesting to here this talk of addition to porn when you are all engaged in a heated debate about company who is censoring a product you are all addicted to.
You don’t have to play their game. Apple is not the only player in town. The fact that they do not embrace the free software movement only spells the death of them. It is just a matter of time. So why not switch now and be done with their silly morale majority antics.
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Yes, it’s their store and they can sell what they want but censorship is the reason I left Blockbuster for NetFlix (and why Blockbuster is now considering bankruptcy!!) If Steve Jobs and his Apple gang insist on censoring the content in their store then I must insist on not purchasing ANY of their products, ever. My dollars are my votes and I will not vote for censorship in any form.
eric
I have an Iphone (the old one), was thinking about getting the new one but I think I have changed my mind. I dont like when ppl are telling me whats good for me, especially when hypocrisy is involved.
Somebody
I can’t believe how many goody-goody drips support this form of censorship. Maybe if any of you had actually HAD sex with a real person you’d see that it’s no big deal and that there’s no reason to make such a fuss about a bit of fun like Daisy Mae.
Dummies who say that “It’s Apple’s store, so they can do what they want” are forgetting that, for legitimate users who do not wish to jailbreak their iPhone, the App store is the ONLY option that they have. It’s one thing to say that Apple has the right to do what they want, but the lack of competition means that their level of control is severely restrictive and arrogant.
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Apple should really deal with this by coming up with some kind of system on the App Store for rating content, so you know whether an app is suitable for someone of a certain age.