Follow MacBlips on Twitter
Feel Like Shaking A Baby To Death? There’s An App For That.
TechCrunch —
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 which the crying will stop and two X’s will be placed over the baby’s eyes — implying, of course, that the baby is dead. I’m not kidding.
Apple has approved a lot of questionable apps since the App Store launched last summer. A few I recall include the $1,000 app that did nothing (which Apple later pulled), the app that keeps track of multiple girlfriends’ ...
Sketchy "Baby Shaker" iPhone App Yanked From App Store
iPhone Savior —
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 silenced. The now immensely ...
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. ...
Apple Removes Baby-Killing iPhone App Amid Outrage
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Apple has pulled an iPhone game that involved shaking a baby to death in response to widespread outrage from parents.
The premise of Baby Shaker was to quiet a baby by shaking the iPhone. But the animation suggested a player was silencing the baby by murdering it: A successful shake caused two large red Xs to appear on the baby's eyes.
"As the father of a three-year-old who was shaken by her baby nurse
when she was only five days old, breaking three ribs, both collarbones
and causing a severe brain injury, words cannot describe my reaction," said Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain ...
Apple Removes Deeply Offensive iPhone Game "Baby Shaker" from App Store; Issues an Apology for Approving it
iPhone Hacks —
Apple Removes Deeply Offensive iPhone Game "Baby Shaker" from App Store; Issues an Apology for Approving it
Apple Reforms App Approval as Facebook Developer Vows "Never Again"
Fast Company - Technology —
Just a day after being publicly excoriated by an influential developer, Apple has introduced new tweaks to its App Store approval process to make it more friendly to submissions. Joe Hewitt, developer of Facebook for iPhone and an in-house Facebook employee, has vowed never to develop for iPhone again. Widely considered the most popular app in the iTunes Store, Facebook for iPhone set benchmarks for UI and interaction design on the phone. "My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies," he told TechCrunch. "I respect their right to manage their ...
