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Macworld: Apple changes it mind, accepts Eucalyptus app
Cult of Mac: Apple Does Right Thing: Kama Sutra eBook Reader Welcomed to App Store
iPhone Savior: Is App Store Rejection The New Acceptance?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Eucalyptus for iPhone gets a new lease on life
Wired: Gadget Lab: Apple Relents, Adds ‘Pornographic’ E-Book Reader to App Store
Apple changes it mind, accepts Eucalyptus app
Macworld —
Posted on by Jonathan Seff , Macworld.com Recently, Apple rejected the iPhone app Eucalyptus entry into the company's App Store. The reason: the e-book reader, which can search the 20,000-plus item classic library of Project Gutenberg , "contains inappropriate sexual content" by allowing access to works such as The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana . Eucalyptus’s developer, Jamie Montgomerie, wrote about Apple’s rejection on his blog, which garnered significant coverage on the Web. On Sunday, Montgomerie wrote that he got a call from an Apple representative who discussed Eucalyptus with him and had Montgomerie resubmit the application, ...
Apple Does Right Thing: Kama Sutra eBook Reader Welcomed to App Store
Cult of Mac —
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Is App Store Rejection The New Acceptance?
iPhone Savior —
... coming to his defense. Less than four days later Apple has approved Eucalyptus ($9.99) into the App Store after an agreed upon re-build with Montgomerie. The resulting press promoting Apple's reversal is still bubbling under with the first I've seen coming from ...
Eucalyptus for iPhone gets a new lease on life
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Bad Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchEucalyptus [App Store] has been finally allowed to appear in the App Store after being rejected by Apple. The e-book reader for the iPhone and iPod touch was rejected because a person could get sexually oriented books like the Kama Sutra, even though the book is in the public domain and freely available on the web. The program author let us know the US$9.99 app was approved late last night. He said, "Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative. He was very complimentary about Eucalyptus. We talked about the confusion surrounding ...
Apple Relents, Adds ‘Pornographic’ E-Book Reader to App Store
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Apple has finally approved the gorgeous-looking e-book reader, Eucalyptus, for the iTunes App Store. The application was previously banned for pornographic reasons: not because it contained objectionable material but because it could be used to download the Kama Sutra, an ancient text which acts as a manual for living a good and full life.
Whoever was on Approval Duty at Apple that day obviously saw the name “Kama Sutra” in the list of downloadable books and had such a knee-jerk reaction that they likely smashed in their own teeth, believing that the book is some kind of sex manual (it isn’t, although it does contain some sex ...
The Week In iPhone Apps: Sonic the Hedgehog Learns to Read [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... Store, and one we covered closely. Here are a few apps that slipped through the cracks. Melodica: It's a bit like Bloom, except more rigid, more practical, and less whimsical. With Bloom, you discover ambient soundscapes with inexact pokes and unguessable time signatures; with Melodica, everything's pretty much on rails, including your tempo. Halfway between an audiovisual toy and a compositional tool, and it's pretty fun. A dollar. Eucalyptus : This eBook app was at the center of a little controversy a while back, ...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Software, App Store, App Review
The floodgate of new iPhone apps is open and enlarging all the time. Hundreds of new entries hit the App Store every week. This is a wonderful thing, but it does cause a good deal of consternation. If you are an iPhone owner, how can you keep up with what's out there? ...

