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Post your comments for iPhone Baby Shaker App Gets Apple Ok, Then Nixed here

[jillikitti]

What The H*?
How many kids (and less-than-responsible) adults had access to this "game" before it was yanked? Is Apple in so much trouble that they have to resort to selling crap like this??? I was thinking about an iPhone, but it's not gonna happen now! Child abuse is not acceptible under ANY circumstances, even under the guise of a "game". Bad move, Apple.

[rgreen4]

And then PC World compounds the situation by posting a video of it. For Shame!

[172pilot]

GET OVER IT.. It's a GAME, and it's no worse than our kids playing first person shooter games or pretending to be criminals in GTA.. It's a GAME people! I dont know if you realize this, but no ACTUAL babies are in your iPhone, nor were killed in the making of the GAME...

We are increasingly living in a world where YOUR ethics are being judged by the whole of society, and YOUR rights are being limited to those which can offend NOBODY. I have news for you.. FREEDOM means having the freedom to do what YOU WANT, but it comes with the responsibility to know that you can't infringe on OTHER PEOPLES FREEDOM.

Stop being offended by what someone else MIGHT do, and get on with your life, even if you must feel better than someone else.

The only thing this game did was to waste 99 cents of whoever bought it, and by the looks of the video, it was incredibly stupid, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be sold by the author, any more than the countless gun and spilling beer programs on the apple appstore.

Apple is WRONG, and if anything, they should just get out of the morality business, and let people sell whatever crap they can sell, and restrict nobody. If they had a policy of letting anything through, then the attention would be on the authors of the program, and not on Apple.

[Forcemaster2000]

The question I have to ask, is WHO would pay 99cents for such a lame app?

[TheOnlybigd]

Unfortunately the answer is the youth of today. If the "kids" didn't want it, no one would have made it. We have to stop blaming the people that make this stuff and start looking at how the youth are being brought up (or not in most cases). Pop culture has taken a sharp turn for the worse, but business has always thrived on playing off of those trends. Turn off MTV and shut down you tube and all the other video sites and I think we will see a lot less "baby shaker apps" in the world.

[GuardBoy98]

Bad move, Apple? I don't see anywhere in this article that Apple forced you to use this software. How dare you tell me what's acceptable for use on my personal device?

Poor taste? Yes. Does it affect you or anyone else? No. Don't like it? Don't buy it!

[Latinheat69]

honestly, i think this app is the funniest thing i have ever seen! CMON you guys. stop being so freaking conservative and have some fun. its just an app. you know you wanna shake that baby!

[crevans]

"you know you wanna shake that baby!"
h1. HA HA HA!

[Catch22]

music Need to kill a babie? There is even an app for that. music

[jb0036]

'Child abuse is not acceptible under ANY circumstances, even under the guise of a "game".'


And who are you to enforce your morality on other people?

[Latinheat69]

Dude. You're my hero

[DTNick]

I think this issue here is not just this app in particular (although I think this app is in poor taste). If Apple didn't have an approval process and allowed anything and everything onto the app store, this would simply be an issue of a developer with questionable taste. Instead, the bigger issue is that Apple's approval process is so wildly inconsistent that it's been rendered useless. I mean, they denied a Twitter client at first because some tweets it displayed just happened to have profanity:
http://theappleblog....rs-potty-mouth/

[dogmo1001]

"You know you want to shake that baby."



This is precisely the kind of creepy, brain-dead sociopath we've got to be on the watch for.


Someone should shake this creep until he's brain dead.



Oh...just kidding.

Sure I am. Right.

[shakagrl]

Here's an entirely different take on this whole sitch: The app designers weren't making light of Shaken Baby Syndrome, which we can agree is a terrible, serious problem. In describing the game, they talk about how annoying it is that babies are everywhere, ruining everything. They are right and I think they were aiming at the frustration we all have felt at watching a screaming toddler tear up and down the aisle of a nice restaurant-ruining our expensive dinner, or having a fussy baby at a 10:00 p.m. screening of a film (never acceptable at any time of day or night), or God forbid (I've seen it myself) in a BAR. Too many parents these days bring their babies and toddlers to inappropriate places. To places where adults congregate and expect to have pleasant adult experiences. Before anyone jumps down my throat, I have two boys who are almost grown and I never DREAMED of subjecting anyone in the general public to their baby behavior in a place where other adults had paid a good deal of money for a nice evening. It's just not fair to others and besides that, it's completely rude. We got a sitter or we just stayed home. It's only for a few years and anyway, those are one of the sacrifices of parenthood.
So that, in my opinion is at the heart of the creation of this game. It was born, so to speak, because of that frustration that more and more people feel tripping over a stroller on their way to get a martini. Not because they were propagating violence against babies. They just wanted to create a game where adults could let off a little steam if they found themselves trapped in one of the above situations.

[BarakO]

Oh come on, people. Apple is not hurting (don't you read the news?) and this is just a silly insignificant game. Just a game, not a manifesto, not a new law, not new policy. Get over it, get off it and get on with your lives.

[greytone]

dogma1001, You're reply is far more creepy to me than the blatant sarcasm you're ticked about and seems like a far better example of the sort of thing we should be trying to avoid.

[oldschoolh4ck3r]

This is sick. What next?

[GraysonPeddie]

All Apple needs is a parental control system, so we can all forget about that news and anger.
Congrats, "child advocates" and parents. Control and judge yourself; don't let Apple do it for you.

[hazzah]

your not going to buy the iphone because of a tasteless app? are you high? that is the stupidest reason i have ever heard for not buying something in my life. the iphone is a good device and your not going to buy it because one app got through that you didn't approve of? if all apple users were as like you, they wouldn't have even bothered with the app store.
by the way, this isn't child abuse, no child is being abused, no child is being depicted being abused. you shake the phone, red crosses appear. how is that abuse? the baby doesn't even move like they do in ragdoll games. the point of the app is to stop the baby crying, not to kill it. the shaking is just a way of doing this, it doesn't imply that you should shake babys to stop them crying, it is just using the iphones features to complete an objective which can not be classified as abuse in any way. get a life and get over yourself or you wont get very far in life.
Message was edited by: rgreen4 - personal attacks removed