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    Written By: Matt Dunn
    June 26, 2009

    Apple confirms pulling the app. Sorry kids, no more iPhone boobz!

    Update 1: According to Engadget, Apple released a statement today stating that the developer of Hottest Girls actually submitted the app without topless women, and then added said content after the app was approved. Naughty, naughty! Apple was actually the one to yank the app, meaning it wasn’t as the developer stated on their website. I hope the people who bought the app don’t get a refund. You all got what you deserve! ;)

    Original: As reported by Macenstein yesterday, the first app containing nudity was released on the app store. The app, Hottest Girls features various pictures of women, some of which are topless. In other words, bOObz! Currently, the app is offline due to it’s extreme success, and the resulting server load. You can check out the message at the official developer site.

    This is an interesting development in the app store. Here at iPGN we kind of assumed apps containing actual adult content would still be censored, despite the new “rating” system for apps in 3.0. I’m bracing now for the onslaught of new nudie apps on the app store. Lets hope it doesn’t turn into a giant trash bin in the next months to come. What do you think? Is this a good thing? Freedom of speech, liberty and justice, and all that?

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    • iPGN-Nige

      boobies is always a good thing!

    • Nathan

      Wait, so people are buying an app to display photos on a device that not only has a built in photo viewing application but a browser to boot?
      Personally I use my iTouch for (shock) music, and of course games, but were I one of the morons that considered buying this I would hope that I would have the wit to realize that it is doing something my device already did for free.
      When will the kiddies learn?

    • leiste

      Nathan and iPGN are right. Boobs are always good but it´s stupid too pay for something wich is also available for free.

    • http://twitter.com/nachorevolution Nacho, USA

      and yet, it’s going to be a monstrous success. I had no idea iPhone users were so hard up for nipples.

    • legend.inc

      lol

    • http://twitter.com/daveleclair iPGN-Dave

      He said hard nipples

    • Rock $ Rolla

      Are you sure

    • legend.inc

      i agree they shouldnt get a refund.

    • Square

      I can’t tell if the no-refund opinion is sarcasm. They shouldn’t get a refund because they purchased what they thought was a legitimate application, as it was originally approved by Apple, and the application’s group pulled a knowingly-damning move to spring their sales? Unless you’re pulling a moral spin here I don’t see any reason they shouldn’t get refunded.

    • Logan

      The real thing I find funny is that Apple didn’t do this to protect the rights holders of those images but simply did it to try to save face.

      Maybe the developer tried to pull a fast one, maybe not. But as anyone who has developed an iPhone app will tell you Apple’s system for approval is incredibly messed up and inconsistent at best. Apple failed and let this slide in, which shows that they have no clue what they are doing as a publisher.

    • http://xratediphone.com xratediphone.com

      The Apple App Store refund policy sees that developer refunds the total price to the end user.

      So a $0.99 app, which nets the app developer $0.70, costs the developer $0.99 to refund. They lose an ADDITIONAL $0.29 for each refund they have to make.

      Example: Dev sells x1000 $0.99 apps. He earns a total of $700.00 – If he has to refund x1000 apps, it costs him $999.00. Ouch!

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