Apple has pulled the Third Intifada app at the request of an Israeli minister.
In what may be the quickest removal in iTunes history, Apple yanked the app just a day after Israeli Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein wrote to Steve Jobs saying the app “passed on information about protests, some violent, planned against Israel.”
We don’t know exactly when, but when we checked for it about an hour ago it was still there, racking up negative “ratings.”
Apple has not responded to our requests for comment or issued a press release on its website.
More to come.
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco freelance writer who heads up Cult of Mac Magazine, our weekly publication available on iTunes. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. If you’re doing something new, cool and Apple-related, email her.
14 responses to “Apple Pulls Intifada App [Breaking]”
I got the app yesterday. I didn’t take a look at it yet, but I’m glad to have a piece of history, I guess.
Israel says ‘jump!’ We say ‘How high?’.
good!
Good. Racism has no place on App Store.
good on you Apple!!
Apple tends to react quickly when legal issues are at stake. I develop a Three Stooges app and when we found a non licensed stooges app on the app store, Apple had it removed within half a day of receiving the lawyers request to pull the app.
It wasn’t really a legal issue here; it was violating their App Store guidelines.