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beefy_clyro

Hey dude. You were asking questions about application content and what is allowed etc. I would suggest you scrap whatever you had in mind. I had an app out that had no nudity, it was just girls in bikinis and apple have now removed it and made a massive change in guidelines. Basically they have said they have removed my app and the below quote;

" However, we have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content, and have changed our guidelines appropriately. We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application."

Hope that saves you some time and effort!

Hunnenkoenig

Finally!

I am already sick of all the china made "hot girls in tide T-shirts" apps on the app store.

And this although I am not gay, I am from europe and I am not prude in any means :-P

giacomopoppi

one thing we agree on there, Hunnenkoenig

Hunnenkoenig

I just deleted at least 20 apps from my site (http://iphoneapp-promocodes.com - a very good opportunity to promote your apps btw :-P ), because they were not available on appstore anymore.

Thanks for the heads up beefy_clyro

JamesZeppelin

Hmmm.....

So I just thought I'd check

I popped open the ole app store. Went lifestyle. Surprise. Amateur thongs and college boob party right there in the top raking in the tens of thousands of dollars per day.

Hunnenkoenig

There are still such apps for sure, but I think, apple has set the right direction with deleting most of them.

With deleting best selling erotic apps they would cut their revenue as well, so I assume, above a certain ammount of daily revenue they will stay.

The quality of the apps is also important. I have no problem with high quality erotic apps. I have problem with the apps showing 10 pictures taken from the web.

StormyStudio

There is news about this on mac rumours. Some wobble app has had the same treatment. Now if they could just do it to mario sound boards who hae no copyright

beefy_clyro

I agree in some ways about apple doing this but i cant see the problem if it isnt porn! Just create a branch off of the app store for adult content, that way it keeps it all seperate, if you are one of the 'complainers', just dont go to the adult section, job done!

BeyondtheTech

I say go for overtly violent content and adult language. You can never have too much realistic blood and gore laced with profanity in a video game.

JamesZeppelin

Amen brother

design219

I think they should be more specific in their guidelines. I mean, what does "cartoon violence" actually mean?

I've got a cartoon chef throwing pots at cartoon vegetables, and I had to think... was this violence? I finally decided it was defense after looking up the definition, but people interpret things differently.

Hunnenkoenig

Apple's guidelines will be used very subjective by their testers.

It is always a russian roulette. I wouldn't think much about it.

We got apps rejected due to internet usage, while other apps which had the same function got through. There is no pattern.

maniraptor

Yeah, based on my experience so far, I would say the determinations based on content are profoundly arbitrary. You know my game Penguin Angel? (http://bit.ly/penguinangel) Where you protect penguins from strange things raining from the sky? Originally it had 19th century illustrations of children, not penguins.

Apple rejected it for being... too violent.

Some people might think, "OMG!? Violence to children? You monster!" However, the "violence" in the game is pretty abstracted, and is not the goal of the game. Compared to what's in the App Store, it's awfully tame. I even asked our beta testers; none of them had a problem with the content, and that group included many parents, and a couple grandparents. (All of whom must be, by Apple's reckoning, abjectly depraved individuals.)

Gah. It wouldn't be so bad if there had been more definitive guidelines, rather than, "uhhh, it shouldn't be, like, objectionable, indecent, but you know, lots more indecent that just farting b00bz or exploding heads, and stuff."

Can you tell it still irks me (although I like the game more with penguins)?

(There's more background on the morass here, if anyone's interested. With literature citations and everything, yo: http://www.goatcartgames.com/2010/02/what-happened-to-angel-thy-guardian/)