Thursday, February 25, 2010

Sorry, No Explicit Section In The App Store ... Yet

Maybe they were just mulling it over, but Apple has removed any reference to an "Explicit" option for submission to the App Store. It had been reported on Wednesday, and some hoped it would be a "solution" for the purge of "racy apps" in the App Store.

In case you didn't notice, Apple has been removing "racy apps" from the app store, even going so far as to remove a "swimsuit store" app (though they restored it later) as even bikinis are banned. That is, unless you happen to be someone Apple considers " a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format" as Apple's Phil Schiller stated earlier. In other words, that's why the Sports Illustrated and Playboy apps are still in the store.

At any rate, it appears it was just a case of someone jumping the gun. A developer confirmed that Apple told him that they (Apple) are thinking about it (an Explicit section), but "it's not going to happen anytime soon."
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