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500px, one of the best iPad apps for finding great pictures, was pulled from the App Store today because Apple is Tobias Funke never-nude-levels of prudish when it comes to the naked body. Apparently, the app made it just too easy to find pictures with nudity in them, so it got the boot.
500px was notified of the issue when it tried to get an update to the 500px for iOS app updated. Apple said that the updated couldn’t be approved because users could search for nude pictures in the app. What’s weird is that 500px actually makes it pretty difficult to do so — the app’s search engine is “safe” by default. If you want to unlock the safe search, you’d have to log in to the 500px website to make the change. That seems entirely reasonable.
Apple’s official statement, as relayed to TechCrunch, accuses 500px of something much more nefarious though:
The app was removed from the App Store for featuring pornographic images and material, a clear violation of our guidelines. We also received customer complaints about possible child pornography. We’ve asked the developer to put safeguards in place to prevent pornographic images and material in their app.
Yeah, we know. No porn allowed in the App Store. Whatever. But it’s not like 500px is a cesspool for hardcore pornography. The pictures that you come across in 500px are more artistic than anything you can find on the Internet. 500px isn’t the eighth page of Google Search Results, or some lonely kid’s fetish Tumblr. It’s one of the most elegant photo apps on iOS and Apple kicked it out of the App Store because of a couple of boobies. Nice. [TechCrunch]
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Ermahgerd Bewbs!
Is this why comments aren’t visible on the mobile site, so you can’t get offended if you’re on an iDevice?
No, comments aren’t visible on the mobile site just to piss off anyone with a smartphone, since we don’t need a poxy “mobile” site . Seriously, does anyone who views this site on a mobile device prefer the mobile version?
You mean people actually come here for more than the comments?!
Apparently people also come here to find out what kind of screws the new iPhone will have.
You are now banned by Apple
Wahoo!
Ridiculous, especially when you can get all the Bewbs you want on Safari under google image search, even Instagram and YouTube show Artistic Tits. I could understand them not passing a Porn app but this is just silly. Silly i tells ya.
There’s nuffin wrong with Artistic Tits and Classy Norks.
i was going to say this.
its as if they dont think their users are very bright, certainly not bright enough to search for porn via safari
Jeese if they think they have a ‘problem’ with 500px, then Tumblr app would have been banned 100 times over.
Insane. I have the iOS app for 500px being an avid user (even my Giz user-name links to 500px). I can honestly say that bazookas only account for around 20% of the reason I open the App for a shufty – my motivation for using 500px app is something like:
20% chesticles
25% long exposure sunsets
15% snowy or ethereal landscapes
30% really classy cat pictures
9% candid portraits of ‘third world’ types
1% HDR images
I forgot something like 5% ‘ridiculously up in the face of a wild animal’ shots