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iphonesavior.com - 4/30/2009

Sketchy "Baby Shaker" iPhone App Yanked From App Store

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Just days before Apple is gearing up to celebrate hitting an epic milestone of one billion App Store downloads, controversy has taken the lion's share of headlines surrounding a new app that encourages quieting annoying, crying babies depicted in charming drawings, by shaking them until ...

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news.cnet.com - 4/23/2009

Apple apologizes for Baby Shaker

— news.cnet.com — Updated at 3:00 p.m. PT with word from Sikalosoft. Apple issued a statement Thursday apologizing for allowing... the Baby Shaker application onto the App Store. Just hours before the App Store offers up its 1 billionth download , Apple was forced ... (more) Apple apologizes for Baby Shaker

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techcrunch.com - 4/24/2009

Feel Like Shaking A Baby To Death? There’s An App For That.

— techcrunch.com — Okay, this is just beyond ridiculous and a bit horrifying. In Apple’s App Store right now is... Baby Shaker, a new app which, displays a picture of a baby and plays crying sounds. To make it stop, you have to shake your iPhone really hard, after ... (more) Feel Like Shaking A Baby To Death? There’s An App For That.

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finance.yahoo.com - 4/23/2009

Apple apologizes for `Baby Shaker' iPhone game - Yahoo! Finance

— finance.yahoo.com — CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) -- Apple Inc. is apologizing for allowing a 99-cent iPhone game called "Baby Shaker"... that let a player quiet a virtual crying infant by shaking the device. Apple removed the program from the iPhone's App Store on Wednesday, but ... (more) Apple apologizes for `Baby Shaker' iPhone game - Yahoo! ...

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The Ultimate Tasteless iPhone Apps Revealed
iPhone Savior — ... Since the release of the repulsive virtual baby killing iPhone app "Baby Shaker", that was yanked down from the App Store only 48 hours after its release, there's no telling what kind of tasteless apps Apple might approve next. That's what makes the App Store so much fun. With the company's app approval process becoming more and more confusing for developers with every new submission, we thought we would take at crack at unveiling our own Top Ten list of tasteless iPhone apps submitted for your disapproval. ...

Softcore Suicide Girls Bring 'Art Sleaze' To iPhone
iPhone Savior — ... Is Apple really trying to commit suicide here? The answer depends on how much you value millions of dollars in free marketing once an app becomes controversial. Everyone wants to gawk at the train wrecks Apple creates, like the most recently banned baby killing iPhone app "Baby Shaker" that dominated news headlines for days. Let's face it, that kind of massive worldwide press is worth the occasional App Store blooper. ...

Apple Casts Out Religious Spoof App "Me So Holy"
iPhone Savior — ... Apple is no stranger to sensitivity since the recent storm of controversy that erupted after the company approved the ridiculous baby killing iPhone app "Baby Shaker", to populate the App Store. Even though the babies in this app were only illustrations, the app drew a huge backlash from the public causing Apple to quickly remove the application and issue a humble apology. ...

Is App Store Rejection The New Acceptance?
iPhone Savior — ... , an app spoofing religious icons and "Baby Shaker", the app that made sport out of silencing crying babies, have been banished to the App Store graveyard indefinitely. But not before dominating news around the globe, grabbing their fifteen minutes of fleeting fame with both hands. ...