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[TeaEarleGreyHot]

And there are no swear-words in any of the music sold by iTunes Music Store, right?

[aceshelman]

that's pretty funny in its absurdity :D

[hempadvocate]

Does this mean that an app I bought just the other day will not be updated? WTF is Apple's problem? Is it time to Jailbreak my iPhone?

[Jason Snell]

That's it, time to shut off Internet access on the iPhone.

[gsundheim]

In the battle of Michael Ian Black vs. the Internet, it looks as though this is round 1, and it goes to Mr. Black. He started the #f*itlist meme, and his 70,000+ followers went bananas with it for a bit.

[hairbandguy]

So apps that allow you to artificially jiggle a woman's boobs is OK but my favorite Twitter app is out ? Maybe Steve needs to spend a day back on campus chewing some butt. Or I guess he could stay home and jiggle some butt on his iPhone.

[phatblat]

This is absurd but hilarious at the same time. I'm glad Tweetie is at least getting more press out of this because the app is AWESOME!
It's interesting that Apple's own word-learning algorithm does not censor bad words. I wonder if any apps have been rejected because of a "learned" bad word ended up in auto-completed text while Apple was reviewing an app.
http://arstechnica.c...n-new-words.ars

[Hurley42]

Maybe I will go back to developing for the Commodore 64 or TRS-80. Then I can love/hate Apple from afar.

[JoeC]

Ok. Let's all not overreact too much. This was clearly a mistake by an overworked, underpaid QA tester. I'm sure the developer will plead his case to Apple, and the update will come out shortly.
Clearly, Apple needs a better process and probably more people for this sort of thing. But they'll figure that out eventually. You'd be amazed at how few people Apple hires on newer ventures like the App Store. Retail got by with very few employees for a very long time.

[ktappe]

You're right--this was indeed likely a slip-up by a single person. However, it illustrates a more fundamental problem: That Apple is censoring things. And this is one of the often overlooked consequences of censorship--that it can very easily censor the wrong things. The main point being that if Apple is going to undertake the huge task of censoring, it behooves them to do it right; properly fund the department responsible and have quality checkers. Or DON'T DO IT AT ALL.

[Schneb]

I despise swearing since it shows a base-level of character. But its the wrong reason to reject an app, by far.

[himbo]

JoeC said:

This was clearly a mistake by an overworked, underpaid QA tester.

The problem is that there is not a single part of this statement that is "clear," especially considering the capriciousness of some of Apple's other App Store rejections. Since they are not disclosing their criteria for acceptance or denial, there may very well be a guideline that states that an app that displays a vulgar term on its front page cannot be accepted, and that could be the end of that.

You don't know. None of us outside the Mothership do.

[PeteC]

I had a similar situation yesterday http://tinyurl.com/bafkxq
I have an application already in the App Store called Diggle that shows articles from Digg. I submitted a "lite" version for review but it was rejected because, at the time the review tested the app, there was swearing in one of Digg's top stories.
I've since resubmitted in the hope someone with a little common sense get's to review it next time.