Oh NO!!!! Apple deletes 5000 iBoob apps from the App Store

[Grumpyguy]

http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-wa...far-2010-2

[AlphaDog]

I'm not feeling the pain about this.

[Jimmypoo]

Not really a problem for me since I go to $%&^*#-Destroyer.com for my "sexy pics."

[NewtonMP2100]

...so the Store got an iBoob job.....?

[Carnos Jax]

Frankly I don't like it.

However, as others around the Internet have already chimed in, it's probably a business decision. If Apple is trying to appeal to a more mainstream demographic, unfortunately due to the prudish values of this country (nothing wrong with those values...it's just that I think parents need to be more responsible) they have to do things like this.

I would even like the ability to install things outside the app store without jail breaking (but perhaps that's not a terribly bad thing to do...just a bit more hassle every time an update comes out). However, I can understand this too. The desire to control apps (hence requiring an app store) comes from what I believe is AT&T/Apple's desire to prevent an additional load on their network. For example I heard that something like 90% of the traffic on the Internet is spam/malware. Can you imagine if that happened to the cellular networks?!

[Grumpyguy]

why not have an R-rate adult section that requires a valid credit card?

Apple could keep the racy stuff off the radar of the iTunes main App Store page.

I think that would have been easier myself.

[Carnos Jax]

Well, I think (and I'm guessing here) that those apps wouldn't fit under the traditional "R-rated" designation used for movies. Rather, they'd be like those movies found in the "adult sections" of small video rental stores. And you won't find a mainstream video store in many places around the country that has an adult section. So you won't probably find one in the apps store.

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I have one on my touch. Should I delete it?

[Ombligo]

Asa parent trying police my 13-yr-old son's Touch, I welcome the exclusion.

As a civil libertarian, there has to be a better model

As a former 13-yr-old boy, what's the harm?

[threeprong]

Ditto Ombligo.