Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Blocked iPhone apps

Apple is bringing the hammer down on iPhone apps. If you want to sell a game that lets you put your friends' faces in the center of a classical Jesus portrait, you're going to have to find another way to do it. (I wonder if there's already a webpage you could access with your iPhone that would do the job...)

I don't think anyone should make money off a baby shaking program, but I think when one company has total say over what is and isn't offensive, it's a problem. I suspect if I made a racing game where a Windows computer always goes faster than a Mac, I wouldn't be able to share it. And while all these ideas are bad ones, there's probably a great idea out there that Apple would rather we didn't see.

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