sure not every issue disscused needs to be about Life and death to be important. It's frusterating however when a person purchases a product, keeps said product, and continuly pisses and moans about it. Buy a pre....a blackberry.....whatever. People love to bitch and complain. And I don't think I'm just complaining about people complaining. What I am doing is making a valid point wich is more than I can say for most of the geniuses on here.

Dial it back about three notches. You are vehemently complaining that people are complaining...

Not every issue is about life, death and the fall of man...but that doesn't mean it's not a valid issue, worthy of discussion and hopes for improvement.

you make a great point. This my sole reason for even posting on here. It so ridiculous that with all the shit happening in the world, truely bad, fucked up shit, this is the kind of thing people are all up in arms about. If you hate the way apple conducts itself don't buy their products. That's simple isn't it. Apparently not. It's as if people think that apple or any company should somehow be about "the people" and for "the people". Apple or any other corporation is about making money. If what they are doing is making them money they will keep doing it. Apple rejecting apps from their store IS NOT censorship for Christ sake. It's the way they choose to do business. Censorship is something mandated buy the government which effects a persons rights to say and do things. Get another fucking cell phone, realize that there's shit happening in the world that should piss off and that this isn't it, and get a fucking life

Your reference to this "censorship" is actually more disturbing than most of the other commentary. The base at which I am currently deployed in Afghanistan is surrounded by a local village with a few thousand inhabitants. In particular, the female members have lived most of their lives being threatened with death, torture and the killing of their families if they attempt to read or obtain education of any kind. Whether you agree with military occupation here is another issue and not intended as a derailment. Rather, in the context of the censorship experienced by Afghan women and people in many other parts of the world, your "passionate" indignation about Apple denying a dictionary app seems more than trite. An application which, ultimately, does not prevent a single person in our entire country from actually having access to any piece of information whatsoever. This is the "censorship" that raises your ire? Seriously?

Just a thought: Do you think a blog may have censors to try to circumvent verbal abuses? Vulgar language in a blog or forum is more likely to be used "in context" to something...well...vulgar and abusive, over a dictionary which simple defines those words. IDK...just throwing that out there.

As far as the app goes, I am completely against there approval process. Why make an app edit there content when I can get right on safri and find somethin 10x worst. For those of you who have a problem with apps being vulgar, DONT BUY IT!!!! and if your concerned about kids gettin a hold of them, DONT LET THEM BUY IT!! I thought apple added the parental controls for a reason...

Actually, I don't see the humor in it. Hypocrisy is what Rene is all about.

Ever notice people are chastised for defending themselves against umpteen rude commenters (like "antonioj, etc, etc) and other Twitter buddies of Rene's who constantly attack people by calling them morons, idiots, retards, etc? And what response do those people receive from Rene? "Thanks to [insert name here] for sending in the tip!"

Nauseating.

Now he's criticizing Apple for not allowing words he himself disallows (although they CAN appear in his articles)?

Nope... nothing humorous about it. Just sad.

Additionally, Apple has entered the preverbial "slippery slope" in censoring applications like they are. The inconsistency is a symptom, for sure, but honestly, where is the line drawn? Public organizations have tripped over this kind of controversy for years and years...I really don't think the reviewers of the app store applications have solved this one. How do you say that "this" is acceptable and something else is not?

IMHO, I think they should stick with the current federal laws...no snuff, no child porn, no threat of harm to others, no viruses. The rest, as objectionable as it can be to some (or most) is really up to the consumer.

We are grown-ups. We can handle it from here. And, the grown-ups should be handling these censorship issues for their children.

(Maybe if some people were not so quick to sue a company for allowing their customers the choice, we wouldn't have uptight, restrictive, CYOA management.)

ha

safari is apples application so it takes precedence over third party apps. That's right. I said it. Apple is a huge company that makes lots of money and looks out for themselves above all else. So what. Isn't capitalism about making investors money? If apple caters more to developers will that make them more significantly more money? If that were the case don't you think they'd be doing it by now?

I understand that I think most people above the age of 12 get that actually, I was making a point that the above questionable content can be retrieved via safari, and Apple should remove that also then...

et tu, Rene?

safari is not on the app store.

People older than 15 usually figure out it is possible to like a product/company and still criticize it.

It is not a black and white world.

ASSD is becoming pandemic.

ASSD, acronym, App Store Stress Disorder, an affliction of fanboys caused by chronic exposure risk averse lawyer work product. Characterized by symptoms of outrage, indignation, and early symptoms of BORS (Blush is Off the Rose Syndrome (which see). Advanced cases may lead to early suppression of their insatiable adoration and love of all things Apple, which threatens their entire world view.

Rene, someone needs to get a grip on this because it makes the site unpleasant to visit these days.

Also no need to slam Brad everyone. As talkin73 said, he has the right to his opinions. The point isn't whether these words should be there or not. The point is Apple's completely random standards in approving apps.

Go thump your bible elsewhere, while pretending that it gives you morality. That claim alone is ludicrous.

Pray tell, did you know that people use substitutes for those words, too? Like "kitty" as a substitute for "pu$$y." (why am I censoring this perfectly ok word?!) So what, not to preserve your sense of morality we should remove the word "kitty" from the dictionary.

You are absurd.

It's like Carlin said - it's not the words, it's the context. And no matter how hard you try, you will never, ever - ever - will be able to censor context in use.

Churches have long established practices and usually pretty good reference material. The FCC has a very large group of people making much more consistent judgement calls and is a public entity.

Sounds like Apple has one or two guys on payroll with an F3 Find button on their computer and a handful of out of context references to use as a basis.

I'm not sure I really care about the filtering really. It's their method I take issue with.

HEY! You leave the Dictionary.com app out of this!!!! That is my favorite dictionary... Don't give Apple any ideas!!!

I can the expressed words, Carlin's 7, and even some others that I've picked up along the way, but it's not rated anything special, and it's been on for months...

Apple's "We Hate Developers" campaign probably needs to end soon.

Nice "standards" Apple. Funny stuff.