Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by myko on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @03:22PM (#5099346)

This is just silly. How does Apple justify pulling this vs Flipboard/Currents?

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by georgemcbay on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @03:33PM (#5099392)

They don't have to justify it.

That's the danger of mandatory locked-down app curation.

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by elemeno on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @03:28PM (#5099369)

I would assume that someone made a complaint to Apple, which then forces Apple to take action and investigate - at that point there's likely a procedure that they need to follow mandated by Apple's Legal department for how it gets handled.

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by FireBeyond on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @04:53PM (#5099852)

Apple is "forced" to do no such thing, any more than a parent can't sue Comcast because her son found a nude picture on the Internet.

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by loceng on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @03:26PM (#5099358)

Someone is better friends with Apple? Possibly Facebook?

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by Peroni on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @03:34PM (#5099400)

Exactly. NSFW content (and a hell of a lot worse) is instantly accessible via any of the Reddit apps. Why not pull those too?

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by twoodfin on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @03:35PM (#5099409)

Alien Blue is also listed as 17+.

Was 500px's app?

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by tchebotarev on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @04:09PM (#5099607)

It was 12+, because default experience is always 'SAFE ON'.

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by jmreid on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @04:43PM (#5099785)

Can someone upload a nude photo and not flag it as a nude? Do you guys check this before it gets published?

If not, Apple might not care that the default is "Safe On" when someone can either disable it easily (outside of iOS's parental controls), or the tagging is inconsistent.

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by tchebotarev on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @05:38PM (#5100083)

Yes they can. Although there are special tools to discourage non-tagged or improperly tagged photos.

We don't check, but our community self-monitors and reacts very quickly (few minutes at most).

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by jmreid on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @06:58PM (#5100487)

Well, you can see Apple's side of this, no? You're basically saying that you don't deserve the mature, "internet app rating" because your users as usually pretty quick at flagging things or that you have a safe default to catch the rest (which can be turned off by creating a 500px account and just turning it off). Both of these subvert Apple's built in parental controls and I'm guessing that's exactly why this happened. If there's a chance of mature stuff, you have to set your rating correctly.

Everyone already got all bothered about this ages ago. Apps that had built in web views had to set a mature rating because a user could then surf the web even if Safari was disabled.

I guess this comes down to what they've asked (yet?) of you. Can you resubmit the app with a higher age-restiction?

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by gte910h on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:44AM (#5103832)

500px's app in the google cache was 4+

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Re:Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store by gte910h on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @12:21AM (#5101536)

This was rated safe for 4+ year olds. Flipboard is not.

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