Apple backtracks on iPhone sex ban
I woke up this morning to an email from James Montgomerie, the developer of ebook-reading iPhone appEucalyptus - whichApple rejected from the app store because people might use it download the Kama Sutra.
It seems thatApple has changed its mind about the ban.
"I got a phone call from an Apple representative who wasextremely complimentary about Eucalyptus, and it's now on sale," he says. The details are documentedover at his blog - but essentially, Apple said if he resubmitted an uncensored version of the program they would put it on sale.
Why did Apple change its mind? Well, the press response can't have hurt - but there seems to be no indication of precisely what happened, or what went wrong in the first place. An over-zealous application of the rules? A decision to raise the bar on censorship in the wake of theBaby Shaker app? Possible competition with a forthcoming official iPhone feature?
Nobody is sure, and Apple isn't saying. Montgomerie's happy enough to have things resolved - although he recognises that this might not be the last we hear of weird decisions from Infinite Loop.
"You'll be pleased to know that the crazy bureaucracy malfunction is now over (for me, at least)," he says.
