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February 8, 2012
Apple pulls sexy Stern magazine iPhone app
Published: 25 Nov 09 10:42 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091125-23501.html
Apple has summarily removed an iPhone application from German news magazine Stern due to objections over photo galleries featuring too much naked skin, Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday.
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There was “disagreement over the erotic galleries,” spokesman for Hamburg-based Stern publisher Gruner & Jahr, Kurt Otto, told the magazine. The company is in talks to solve questions of ethically questionable content, he added.
But Gruner & Jahr, which also publishes women’s magazine Brigitte, is irritated that Apple removed their application without giving notice, saying such scantily clad galleries are widespread in the industry.
Apple’s app criteria is known to be opaque with no set criteria, and the company may be sensitive about the April scandal over allowing the controversial “Baby Shaker” app, a game which allowed users to shake a cartoon baby until it died, the magazine said. The app was removed following public outrage.
Apple would not speak with Der Spiegel about the Stern application, but spokesperson Georg Albrecht said it would be available at the online store again soon.
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I have never noticed, up to now, anything on the Stern app which may have been "questionable", although I do not normally look into the fashion section. This is another example of American prudishness imposing itself on other cultures.
Nonetheless, the app still seems to be working on my phone as of today.
My point is... since there is a 17+ warning on the app, and since phones can be content locked from getting such content for those under 17... what's the problem?
It is nothing but censorship when you are trying to apply these standards upon an independent news magazine with risk of removal!
This is flagrant abuse of a dominant market position, which I am sure must be against EU legislation. Wouldn't be the first time an American IT company broke EU law.
As far as what i think, Apple has dictatorial command over the content. One second they would allow the Baby Shaker and then suddenly like a Bi-polar diseased person, take it off.
Btw, do you know this about Apple App store? :
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10359678-37.html