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Apps In Jeopardy: iTunes Spits Out Apple's Adult Fun

Submitted by nicole_powers

Edited by nicole_powers

Tags: Missy, G4, Apple, App Store, SuicideGirls Flip Strip, Attack of the Show, Kevin Pereira

SuicideGirls co-founder Missy will sit down with Kevin Pereira to discuss Apple's recent removal of the SuicideGirls: Flip Strip application from Apple's iTunes store on today's episode of Attack of the Show on G4.

The application was recently removed along with about 5,000 other overtly sexual apps, in accordance with apple's new content guidelines. No definition of those guidelines have been published as of yet.

SuicideGirls Flip Strip App was based on the classic nudie pen concept -- with a high tech twist. It was a cheeky little program, featuring models who stripped down to their underwear when the user's iPhone was inverted, but displayed no actual nudity. The Flip Strip became the fourth most popular free iPhone App at the iTunes store following its release in May 2009. It garnered over 1 million downloads in a matter of days, with total downloads exceeding 5 million before the app was pulled.





Currently you may still download Seduce A SuicideGirl, as well as Playboy's application, but several apps from Maxim have been removed.

Tune into G4 at 7PM EST to hear Missy's thoughts on the removal.



**Update**

The fabulous folks at Gizmodo have apparently got hold of Apple's new puzzlingly puritanical guidelines, and they make for pretty hilarious reading:

1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)
2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn't ask about Ice Skating tights for men)
3. No skin (he seriously said this) (I asked if a Burqa was OK, and the Apple guy got angry)
4. No silhouettes that indicate that Wobble can be used for wobbling boobs (yes – I am serious, we have to remove the silhouette in this pic)
5. No sexual connotations or innuendo: boobs, babes, booty, sex – all banned
6. Nothing that can be sexually arousing!! (I doubt many people could get aroused with the pic above but those puritanical guys at Apple must get off on pretty mundane things to find Wobble "overtly sexual!)
7. No apps will be approved that in any way imply sexual content (not sure how Playboy is still in the store, but …)



SG particularly likes the ban on men in bikinis. At least this policy is an equal opportunities FAIL. Check Gizmodo's original story for more mockery/details.

**Updade**

Watch Missy on Attack of the Show here.

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HeartBaker

HeartBaker

Fresno, CA
October 2007

FEB 22, 2010 04:01 PM

What's the problem,. their in undies not naked

nicole_powers

nicole_powers

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

FEB 22, 2010 04:12 PM

I know. Explain that to Apple. They need to get with the program with the iPad in mind. I mean what's the point of buying what's essentially a large iPhone that doesn't make calls unless you can use its lovely big screen to display images such as those on the Flip Strip? If they don't reconcile the iPhone, iPod, and their apps with adult content, then someone will build devices that will and Apple's products will be lost in the dust. This is plain stupid. So incredibly backwards considering its 2010 -- AND considering Apple has parental controls built in to its OS anyway.

Dryad

Dryad

Asheville, NC
July 2008

FEB 22, 2010 04:30 PM

I think it's cute, but I don't have an iphone.

The episode of AOTS is on my tivo right now, so I just need to watch it.

FitzSimmons

FitzSimmons

Saint Paul, MN
January 2008

FEB 22, 2010 04:54 PM

Wow, this seems like such a harmless little thing. I'd love to know what prompted these new guidelines.

Dr_U

Dr_U

Bellevue, KY
November 2004

FEB 22, 2010 04:57 PM

Apple is out of it's mind to try to censor apps. They're just handing Android and their future competitors the 18 - 34 demographic.

Moxy

Moxy

SUICIDEGIRL

Florida, USA

FEB 22, 2010 05:07 PM

if you guys made this for droid i would be soooo happysmile droid is better than apple any day. their just dumb prudessmile

MissSpastic

MissSpastic

Australia
October 2009

FEB 22, 2010 05:23 PM

I very nearly actually face palmed!

AlkalineIII

AlkalineIII

I'm lost
April 2009

FEB 22, 2010 05:25 PM

Apple removed it

AlkalineIII

AlkalineIII

I'm lost
April 2009

FEB 22, 2010 05:25 PM

Sad frown

semiretiredpunk

semiretiredpunk

USA
March 2007

FEB 22, 2010 05:44 PM

I won't be buying an Apple anything for awhile. I wonder if they'll ever start taking music off our iPods, too. (It may be a stretch, but that's not my point. ...or is it a stretch?)
Government censorship may be governed by the first amendment, but if you don't like what this or that company does, you have to vote with your wallet.

tower_raven

tower_raven

San Rafael, CA
May 2008

FEB 22, 2010 05:44 PM

US and sex = bad and must be blocked
US and violence = Feel free

Best anecdote that I have heard regarding the US and open sexuality is that we are a nation that has one of its biggest holidays to celebrate the puritanical zealotry of people that had to leave their homelands. Turkey and pumpkin pie anyone?

I mean look at Italy....they will have nudity on the air and in papers and is home to the Vatican.

The Sun application got blocked just cause of Page 3 and their comics.

semiretiredpunk

semiretiredpunk

USA
March 2007

FEB 22, 2010 05:49 PM

Indeed. Isn't it lovely?

Cigarette

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH
April 2004

FEB 22, 2010 05:51 PM

semiretiredpunk said:
I won't be buying an Apple anything for awhile. I wonder if they'll ever start taking music off our iPods, too. (It may be a stretch, but that's not my point. ...or is it a stretch?)



Not a huge stretch. Amazon removed bought-and-paid-for-books from Kindles and reimbursed the users (with store credit) when a it was erroneously published digitally.

Oddly enough, the books in questino were Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.

Nixon

Nixon

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

FEB 22, 2010 05:51 PM

This is a ridiculous decision from a business standpoint. So many customers and cool points lost!

Are they going to limit which books you can read on iPad?

semiretiredpunk

semiretiredpunk

USA
March 2007

FEB 22, 2010 05:55 PM

Cigarette said:

semiretiredpunk said:
I won't be buying an Apple anything for awhile. I wonder if they'll ever start taking music off our iPods, too. (It may be a stretch, but that's not my point. ...or is it a stretch?)



Not a huge stretch. Amazon removed bought-and-paid-for-books from Kindles and reimbursed the users (with store credit) when a it was erroneously published digitally.

Oddly enough, the books in questino were Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.



It's fear of just that that has kept me from buying a Kindle, actually.

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