On iPhone, Searching For Kama Sutra = Porn

heychris writes "Eucalyptus, an ebook app for iPhone, has been rejected from the App Store for 'objectionable content.' What's so objectionable? The Kama Sutra, available from Project Gutenberg, which is available on other ebook readers as well. Not only that, but the screenshot shows that you would have to search for Kama Sutra to get it; it's not built in to Eucalyptus. The author is reasonable but frustrated, while Herr Gruber is more succinct." I wonder how good the now-cheap Nokia 810 is as an e-book reader.

cydia

[isama]

is the answer

Just Resubmit

[MozeeToby]

Its been very thoroughly established that Apple's censorship program is based more upon the reviewer you get than any standard set of guidelines. Someone got overzealous and rejected it, that doesn't mean that it is against Apple's policies. Just re-submit the thing and I'd lay even money on it that it will be approved the next time.

Karma Sutra is misunderstood...

[Manip]

A lot of people have the mistaken impression that the Karma Sutra is a sex guide when in reality it is a guide to having and maintaining a strong relationship.

For example it talks about marriage, how to meet women, and other things that you might expect from any modern relationship guide. It has a few sections about sex, kissing, and such but isn't the "sexual positions" guide that people think it is (often mis-referenced as such).

It is no more porn than any modern relationship book (e.g. "Women are from venus men are from mars").

The Author's Blog response

[heychris]

Hi folks,

Original submitter here. It seems the root link to the the author's blog is gone, though it's in the firehose submission:

http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus [montgomerie.net]

He's posting his entire dealings with Apple, mostly of the form letter variety. Hope this app nonsense gets cleared up soon.

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N810 as eBook Reader

[kwalker]

I use my n810 as an eBook reader all the time. The screen works quite well, and FBreader [fbreader.org] works like a champ (Even has its own Maemo repository). It doesn't have a book repository, but I haven't need one. The n800 should work about the same, and has a slightly larger screen. I just needed the keyboard.

But then again, I've been using eReaders since my original Palm Pro.

Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn

[Brian Gordon]

It's actually not. Most of it is about relationships and marriage. Yes part of it has advice about sex but it's descriptive rather than erotic. Plus it's translated from Sanskrit so it's hardly readable. Here's a sample:

On the occasion of a 'high congress' the Mrigi (Deer) woman should lie down in such a way as to widen her yoni, while in a 'low congress' the Hastini (Elephant) woman should lie down so as to contract hers. But in an 'equal congress' they should lie down in the natural position. What is said above concerning the Mrigi and the Hastini applies also to the Vadawa (Mare) woman. In a 'low congress the woman should particularly make use of medicine, to cause her desires to be satisfied quickly.

Plus the famous pictures were only added later and aren't part of the actual work.

Re:Here's a suggestion:

[Wrath0fb0b]

Unfortunately here in the US there are only one or two phones released with it officially and both are on T-Mobile. Windows Mobile doesn't support captive touch screens officially, and almost anyone who has used WinMo can tell you it basically sucks.

(1) You can move the G1 to AT&T (or any other GSM carrier). Of course AT&T costs a metric ass-ton more than TMO, so I don't know why would want to do it, but that's a different matter? http://www.unlock-tmobileg1.com/EN/procedures/activate.php [unlock-tmobileg1.com]

(2) WinMo sucks out of the box, but there is a massive community of people cooking up new ROMS and writing awesome applications. If you are a super-busy-important guy (why would you be posting on /.?) then it's not for you, but for anyone with free time that likes to play with gadgets and customize software, WinMo is an acceptable choice.

Also, what's all the fuss about capacitive touch screens? My >2-year old (yes, it predates the 1G iPhone) HTC Titan has a resistive touch screen that works fine without the stylus for any application designed for touch-use, including most of the WinMo interface since I upgraded to 6.5 (community built, naturally). The (past) lack of good touch applications on the WinMo side of things was a software problem carried over from the days of the stylus, not because of hardware that couldn't support it.

Re:As to the question of the Nokia N810

[Simon80]

I second this, my N800 can surf the web, play music and videos, view documents, make SIP calls, and run arbitrary (free!) Linux applications that people port to the platform (i.e. torrent client, pidgin, mplayer, Gnumeric..), with no approval necessary from Nokia, and yet when I'm not in class with the thing taking notes and using the Internet, my main use for it is to read books on the bus or when killing time for whatever reason. In the last four months alone, I've read over 500 pages of the OpenGL Red Book on it. I highly recommend an N810 to users who want an inexpensive, non-crappy alternative to the iPod Touch.

Re:The Kama Sutra isn't porn

[vurian]

No, it's your general size and shape. Just extrapolate from the animals in question...

My guess

[Benanov]

It's because his app doesn't respect parental control settings.

Still kinda stupid.

Re:Can you only get apps through the App Store?

[cattrain]

You can get apps from a third party only if you jailbreak it.

Re:Jesus Christ

[commodoresloat]

Yes it is. I suppose it depends on your definition of "religious" but it is considered a sacred text, its writing is attributed to a god (or a sacred bull), and it contains moral instruction for readers.