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Baby Shaker App proves App Store approval process is clusterf...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
We really don't have words to describe this one. Apple can you please, please hire some competent people to man your App Store approval process? Maybe pay above minimum wage and enforce some sort of drug testing. As new parents, we have to say in all seriousness, this has gone beyond abhorrant.
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iPhone App Store Policies: Broken!
Technologizer —
... The latest evidence: Even though good-taste guidelines put limitations on use of swear words, a game that involves shaking a baby to death is permissible.
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Feel Like Shaking A Baby To Death? There’s An App For That.
TechCrunch —
... farther to actually show the anus, and now this, which is without question the least tasteful yet. If Apple had a completely open App Store, in which anyone could submit anything and have it approved, that would be one thing. But it obviously does not. Instead, apps featuring tiny elements like icons that somewhat resemble an iPhone get rejected. Yet somehow, this gets through.
A woman who lost her own son in 2007 after he was shaken to death, brought the app to CNET’s attention. And rightfully so.
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News: Apple sinks lower, approving Baby Shaker, Poop the World apps
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... from Sikalosoft is to stop the crying of a baby pictured on screen by shaking the iPhone or iPod touch, until the crying stops and two red “x” marks appear over its eyes. Jennipher Dickens, whose son Christopher was injured by being shaken by his father, told Cnet , “As a mother of a child who was violently shaken at 7 weeks old, causing a severe brain injury, and the founder of a national organization for Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention (as well as the communications director for a national organization helping children with brain injuries), I don’t have to tell you how much ...
Apple's Shaky Standards: Baby Shaker iPhone App Approved, Quickly Yanked [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... is already statistically the most likely to shake babies.") It's painfully simple—there's a black-and-white sketch of baby that cries annoyingly until you shake the phone enough to make it stop, at which point a pair of red X's appear over its eyes. The app is so poorly made it's definitely not worth 99 cents. Here's the sole review for it on iTunes, which pretty much sums it up: But, yeah, how does that approval process work again? Oh yeah. [iTunes via Cnet]
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Apple Yanks Crass "Baby Shaker" iPhone App
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
Following a day-long eruption of protest on Twitter and in blogs, on Wednesday afternoon, Apple removed an app from the App Store that allowed iPhone and iPod touch users to shake a picture of a baby to stop it from crying. The "Baby Shaker" app, which was posted for sale for 99 cents on Monday, is just another head-scratching example of apps approved by Apple for inclusion in the App Store when other seemingly innocuous apps are held for months, or rejected.
The app can no longer be found in the App Store, but curious readers can find a screen shot in CNET coverage from earlier today and even a video on YouTube. The app, published by Sikalosoft, which ...
Baby Shaker further exposes App Store flaws
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Bad Apple, App StoreSometimes, you really have to question the App Store approval process. Sure, this isn't the first time that Apple has made an unwise decision regarding the approval (or lack thereof) of applications to the App Store. But, this one takes the cake. For the span of a few hours on Wednesday, Apple allowed the release of "Baby Shaker," an app from Slkalosoft (who, ironically no longer has the app listed on its site). The application displayed an image of a crying infant. You had to shake the iPhone or iPod Touch repeatedly in order to get the child to stop crying -- ...
How did "Baby Shaker" slip through the cracks?
The Apple Core —
April 23rd, 2009 How did "Baby Shaker" slip through the cracks? Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 11:14 am Categories: App Store , iPhone , iPod touch Tags: Apple Inc. , Public Relations , Digital Music , Digital Media , Marketing , Corporate Communications , Personal Technology , Consumer Electronics , Jason D. O'Grady [image] In what can only be described as an oversight (at least one can hope) Apple approved an iTunes application that displayed a picture of a baby and played a crying sound. The “objective” of said app was to violently shake the iPhone or iPod touch until the ...
Baby Shaking. There's an App For That - Well, Not Anymore
Mac|Life —
baby What appears a recipe for a PR disaster, Apple approved the sale of the iPhone app, "Baby Shaker" and for a short time before pulling it yesterday. The app does exactly what the name says. You shake a baby until it stops crying. When that happens, red Xs appear on the baby's eyes. The international cartoon sign that something is dead or filled with booze. The app's description read, "See how long you can endure his or her adorable cries before you just have to find a way to quiet the baby down!"Classy. Considering the sheer amount of apps that must be approved by Apple, it's no wonder a less than desirable app slips through the cracks. Apple recently blocked a Tweetie ...
A Truly Tasteless (iPhone App) Joke -- Without the "Joke" Part, Unfortunately
iSmashPhone —
From the "what the &#^* were they THINKING?!?" department: The App Store, whose policies for admitting or denying apps has been inconsistent at best and downright clueless at worst, recently offered a game called Baby Shaker. Yes, it's as bad as the name suggests: you shake your iPhone/iPod Touch violently to silence the wails of ...
Apple breaks App Store silence
iPhone Atlas —
In an extremely rare move, an Apple executive has publicly commented on the App Store approval process as it relates to a controversial dictionary application. Apple's Phil Schiller, seen here at Macworld in January, commented on the App Store approval process this week--a move that seems to be unprecedented.(Credit: James Martin/CNET) ...
