Apple rejects “Overtly Sexual” content from App Store

Adult app developers, in case you didn’t get the point that Apple doesn’t want you, they’ve just made another move to drive the point home.  Previously approved “sexy” apps in their 17+ category have been rejected and taken off the market in one fell swoop.  However, true to form, Apple has kept the Victoria’s Secret app on their market.

From Tech Crunch:

Apple may have just made a major change to the App Store that could render many developers’ applications worthless. We’ve just heard from Jon Atherton, the developer behind Wobble iBoobs, who says that he just received an Email from Apple indicating that his application was being removed from the App Store because of a new policy change: Apple has apparently decided “to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store.”

Even developers who have complied with Apple’s stringent guidelines  have fared the same fate as Wobble iBoobs.  Says the developer of Featured Pinups,

The sad part is that this application didn’t really have anything obscene, it was just a simple application to showcase the featured pictures of the day of PinupLifestyle.com who hired me to build the application.

Comments have a good mix of supporters and opponents of Apple’s practices, but the overall attitude of the opponents is summarized quite well with one statement.

It might be THEIR platform, but it’s MY phone; I should be able to put whatever the hell I want on it.

So if you’ve been wondering if you can make money with an adult iPhone app on the App Store, the answer is a big fat NO.  Unless you like spending thousands of dollars developing an app (that is heavily censored, we might add) for 2 months, then waiting for 6-12 months for approval only to get rejected, we highly advise against it.

Don’t worry developers, MiKandi supports you and your sexy apps.  Come to the dark side.  We have cookies.