iPhone 3.0's Parental Controls to Loosen App Store Restrictions?
In the wake of Trent Reznor's vocal objection to Apple's App Store content-based rejection policies, it seems that the iPhone 3.0 update may provide the solution.
iLounge reports that Makayama's Newspaper(s) [App Store, $0.99] application was originally rejected due to inappropriate online-content (images of topless women) from the UK's The Sun tabloid. Apple informed the developer that Parental Controls have been announced for iPhone 3.0 and that it "would be appropriate to resubmit your application for review once this feature is available."
This suggests that many of the "offensive content" reasons for App rejections may go away once 3.0 is available. For now, Makayama has simply removed the offending newspaper from his application.
iLounge reports that Makayama's Newspaper(s) [App Store, $0.99] application was originally rejected due to inappropriate online-content (images of topless women) from the UK's The Sun tabloid. Apple informed the developer that Parental Controls have been announced for iPhone 3.0 and that it "would be appropriate to resubmit your application for review once this feature is available."
This suggests that many of the "offensive content" reasons for App rejections may go away once 3.0 is available. For now, Makayama has simply removed the offending newspaper from his application.
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36 months ago
Finally.. After all, the whole issue is "what if a child sees this..". Better Parental Controls should have been implemented when the App Store was introduced.
Surely when they had in-depth discussions about the App Store, someone must have foreseen that explicit content should be addressed. Or maybe they did, and the best they could come up with at the time was, "reject it".
Shall we expect a rush of new app's come iPhone 3.0 then...?
Surely when they had in-depth discussions about the App Store, someone must have foreseen that explicit content should be addressed. Or maybe they did, and the best they could come up with at the time was, "reject it".
Shall we expect a rush of new app's come iPhone 3.0 then...?
36 months ago
I think this is an excellent solution to the problem of allowing for more content while still giving parents easier control over the content their children view. I guess the question now is, how far will developers be able to go now? Will the app store allow 'adult' apps?
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P-Worm
36 months ago
Now I just hope people don't take "in the wake of" to mean "as a result of"... logical evolution of the app store though. Everyone is up in arms about something that's really only a year old (give or take?). Eventually Apple will work it all out.. hopefully.
36 months ago
[QUOTE/] For now, Makayama has simply removed the offending newspaper from his application.
S/he should do us all a favour and remove the offending newspaper from the whole planet, period...
36 months ago
Why the heck is anyone buying their kid an iphone or ipod touch? Make the kid get a job at 16 then buy their own!
36 months ago
I never understood the danger female breasts presented to the American public compared to other things people are exposed to.
36 months ago
I'm not a buyer of the Sun or any tabloid paper in the UK... but I think it would only be a matter of time until Apple gave in for content such as this. End of the day, parental controls are there for a reason.
36 months ago
For now, Makayama has simply removed the offending newspaper from his application.
S/he should do us all a favour and remove the offending newspaper from the whole planet, period...
Amen!.
Im not even sure how "The Sun" because eligible for the title Newspaper.
36 months ago
Why the heck is anyone buying their kid an iphone or ipod touch? Make the kid get a job at 16 then buy their own!
My girls both worked from the age of 14 and bought their own.If your teenager can't afford $199 on an iPhone, then as a parent you'd better demand they have a part-time job.
All kids should have part time jobs.
it makes for a more successful life.
36 months ago
I really don't understand why this wasn't added from the very beginning. My guess is that they didn't realize the App Store would get so many applications in it so quickly. Oh well, at least now it will be there.
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