The reason for Apple 's addition of the new category is unknown, although it seems possible that the company may have reconsidered its decision to remove the “overtly sexual” applications in the face of backlash from developers and users and has decided to create a dedicated category in an attempt to find a middle ground in the controversy. The use of a dedicated category for explicit material could supplement the age-rating system used for all (more…)

The iPhone app in question,forChan,is developed by the app development company iHustleApps. This
, which retailed at $0.99 at the App Store, let users connect to any imageboard site and surf through the pictures from their server. To put it simply, it was photo-viewing web browser. The app was not completely innocuous though. It listed all the popular imageboards in categories and there were close to 15 ”
” sections. The app was initially approved (more…)

The app in question is SuperAgent, developed by an Irish firm called Factory Six. The lead agent character in the game is named ”
” which also happens to be the name of WME Entertainment CEO, Ari Emanuel. WME has a lot of popular celebrities including Ben Affleck, Robert De Niro in their clientele. In the letter sent to the app developers, the company writes
“The game uses the name 'Ari' for the main character, which clearly is a reference (more…)

The reviews and ratings scam comes to light after one of the readers of the iPhoneography blog revealed that a relatively less popular iPhone app, '
' had nearly 44 reviews with 5 star ratings. What's more, each of these reviewers had posted all their reviews on iPhone apps released by just a single app developer – China based Molinker Inc. The issue which was brought to the notice of Phil Schiller from Apple resulted in an immediate (more…)

Unfortunately Apple this night pulled the C64 App from the App Store. We had agreed with Apple to remove basic from the application, but as we believed it would be possible to convince Apple to let it in later on, we left it in the app to be activated remotely by us when we had “go” from Apple .
Due to the extreme publicity the app has received over the weekend and the fact that several users found a way to enable the basic back, Apple decided (more…)