Apple Has a New Porn Problem 136
adeelarshad82 writes "Twitter's new iOS-only app, Vine, was prominently featured by Apple as an 'Editor's Pick' in its App Store the day it launched. However, given Apple's policies for adult content, they may have rushed the whole thing since this past Sunday, a number of news outlets ran stories covering the rise of easily-accessible pornography on the new video sharing app. As Joshua Topolsky explains, the situation draws even more attention to the vague and sometimes confusing rules of Apple's App Store guidelines, and more clearly showcases the sporadic and often unusual criteria the iPhone-maker uses to decide the fates of applications. So it will be interesting to see how Apple handles this given that they've never been shy about banning similarly racy apps in the past."
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Informative)
Perhaps you are unaware that Apple does not allow Apps that serve porn to last very long in the AppStore?
It appears that Twitter has a problem (Score:5, Informative)
Re:unclear subject (Score:5, Informative)
Twitter has introduced a video app which works a bit like short tweets. It lets you compose seven second video loops.
Re:Lock in and Consumerism (Score:4, Informative)
I don't know where you've been lately but texts and IMs are virtually indistinguishable to me these days.
Re:Just more wanna-be "mommy" behavior (Score:4, Informative)
Which makes Apple's ham handed policies even worse for not being implemented in a standardized way.