iPhone Porn App Not Pulled By Apple, Just “Sold Out.” Other Porn Apps Available.
June 25, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
The drama in iPhone porn world continues. Yesterday, Hottest Girls, the first app with nudity was accepted into the App Store. But early that daylight it was made unavailable, and everyone presumed Apple was behind it. But apparently, the app has not been pulled from the App Store by Apple, but rather by the developers considering of high demand.
The guy team behind the app, Allen the Geek, writes on its site:
The Hottest Girls app is temporarily sold out. The server usage is extremely high considering of the popularity of that app. Thus, by not distributing the app, we can prevent our servers from crashing. Those who already have the app will still be able to use our app. To reply the question on everyone’s mind: Yes, the topless images will still be there when it is sold again. -ATG dev team
So is that BS? Is that just them covering up for Apple pulling it? I don’t think so.
While everyone is assuming that Apple pulled the app from the App Store, when it has done that in the past, you often see the entire page vanish. That’s not the case that day, as the page remains intact on the App Store several hours after the app has been made unavailable. And you can actually visit to buy, enter you password and get the pop-up warning you that that app is rated 17+. But when it is about to download, a pop-up comes up saying, “The item you tried to buy is no longer available. The availability of the item changed while you were using the store. The
Allen the Geek’s wording is odd considering apps can’t actually “sell out,” but it makes sense that whether high demand for the pictures is crashing their servers, they might pull it.
But perhaps more importantly, there are other apps still live that claim to have nudity. Here’s one — it even has “Topless” in the title. I just bought it, with no problem. (Though, to be clear, the app apparently doesn’t have its topless pictures ready yet just yet.)
And other developers are reporting that there is a “nudity” check box when you submit an app for approval, so it doesn’t prepare sense for Apple to have that whether it’s going to reject these apps.
This matters considering now that Apple has parental controls for apps built into the iPhone, it would seem that Apple has nullified the reason it needed to reject apps containing things like images of topless women. And removing that restriction would presumably free up app screeners to do their jobs better, something which has been an issue for several months. And so while it may seem that that is Apple being prudes again, I don’t that is actually the case.
I’ve contacted the developer about that removal, and will update when I construct out back.
[thanks Corey]
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