“Springer-owned tabloid Bild’s ‘Shake the Bild Girl’ app allows iPhone users to undress a model. Each time the user shakes the phone, the girl strips an item of her clothing. While Bild features naked women daily in its pages, Apple ruled that the girls in its iPhone app should wear bikinis,” Bunz reports. “The Association of German Magazine Publishers asked FIPP last week to approach Apple over the issue. FIPP is debating the issue, but has no further comment at the moment.”
Bunz reports, “Apple asks publishers of general interest apps to respect its US ‘no nipples’ policy. In November, German weekly Stern’s app was dropped from the App Store due to an erotic photo gallery. When Apple approached Bild in January, the publisher censored the PDF version of the paper programmed for the iPhone.”
Full article here.
Great headline!
Let the titty fans go with Android.
MDN
Please feel free to keep us abreast of this sticky situation and the shaky state of their suit….
The puritans are winning. Guns don’t kill people…
Ouch – reading with hands over breasts, protecting n++++^^.
Where else but in the US is it OK to show a decapated body, but not ok to show a woman’s nipple?
US= Make war, not love
world = Make love, not war
Considering the mass influx of immigrants from all corners of the world into the USA I’m surprised that the founding fathers puritanical attitude still holds sway over such matters and considering that due to this attitude they must have procreated in the dark whilst still keeping their clothes on I’m further surprised that there’s still any of em left. No wonder we kicked them out of the uk.
@sillyamericans
Europeans are more sensitive to violence because they experienced the tradgedy of two world wars, while Americans are more sensitive to nudity as they experienced the tragedy of the national lampoon franchise. Seriously though, it’s apple’s store and apple’s call. Don’t like it? Use a POS android phone, or just use safari.
No nipples!
How will mothers feed their newborn children?
Speaking of bodily functions, Fart Apps but no nipples? Oh the Humanity!
The reporter’s name is Mercedes Bunz? Surely, not.
I like nipples
I think Apples policy is silly, use parental controls!
“Mercedes Bunz”?? Haha.
“I think Apples policy is silly, use parental controls!”
It doesn’t stop going to a friend’s home and installing it on from another computer unless it is also locked down.
Wait, I’m reading the article and it says, “Springer is Apple’s second biggest client worldwide after Google.” Am I reading that correctly, this company called Springer is a bigger client than MS, Adobe, Yahoo to Apple???
Let FIPP start their own version of iTunes.
Now if Apple could only get rid of the boobs in Washington.
@MDmac:
yes, and if they do, they will be eternally damaged by seeing…. nipples! You know, the things they were fed through for the first two years of their lives. Get a life, please. Nothing wrong with nudity.
At least these damaged children of yours will still have the right to legally build an arsenal of handguns.
They should introduce the mandatory burka for al women in America.
Funny the different standards, we minimally censor violence but freak out at a boob on tv…or on a cell phone, apparently.
Personally I don’t want any of it censored…create a separate app store for it if you have to.
@lisa
What did you do when you typed your comment???
Seriously, Apple is going to have get out of the censorship business. I respect their position, but ultimately it is doomed to failure. The iPad needs to be a conduit for a wide range of publications/Applications. You need a credit card to get an iTunes account, so account holder are all over 18 years of age. That and parental controls should be the end of Apple’s involvement in the content we choose to consume on their products. Either that or they need to allow publishers to provide direct delivery of content to our devices, bypassing the iTunes Store.
“T” is right. I’m an American, AND a business owner — and this is embarrassing. Not a big App Store user, but are there any breastfeeding apps currently? If so, will Apple also try and censor those?
This is ridiculous. Americans — more frightened of their children (or themselves) seeing a <GASP!> nipple than seeing a bloody corpse or a gun fight or even scenes depicting torture on 9pm television. It truly boggles the mind. And if you’ve never traveled or never spent any significant time in other countries, you really can’t understand how silly we seem, at least in this area.
Think about it: It’s okay to see . . . the OUTSIDE of the female breast, the INSIDE of the breast (cleavage is somehow okay), the TOP of the breasts, and even the UNDERSIDE of the breasts (poking out from ill-fitting bikini tops), but heaven forbid you allow your child to see even ONE SQUARE MICRON of that slightly darker tissue known as the AREOLA (!) and . . . YOU . . . WILL . . . BE . . . PUNISHED!!! Child abuser!!!
Seriously, what the heck’s wrong with ratings on these apps anyway?
What is the point of having the ‘Restrictions’ options in the iPhone OS if applications that are intended for adults are banned from iTunes? Also, why is Apple censoring anything sexual but not anything violent? They seem to be basing their censorship decisions on the assumption that sex is a taboo while violence is entertainment.
@ Rot’nApple
“Now if Apple could only get rid of the boobs in Washington.”
ChrissyOne fully supports boobs in Washington. Indeed, she would even call for MORE boobs.
Bounce the boobs!
@T.
“Get a life?”
Can you read. Nowhere in my response did I infer that tyere was something wrong with nudity.
I was simply stating a fact that ‘parental controls’ wasn’t foolproof.
I wanna see penis! All we ever do is censor the penis lol
Are male nipples OK? Especially when gynecomastia or “moobs” is not uncommon?
http://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/breaking-news/male-breast-reduction-fastest-growing-cosmetic-surgery-in-uk.html
In Europe and NZ and Australia etc, you commonly see bare breasts on the beach if it is nice weather so we can forgive the Germans for forgetting about America’s strict no boobs laws. And no public breast feeding too! Feed your baby safe, factory made “formula” and don’t be an animal.
When was the last time you played an Xbox or Wii video game with sex as the main theme instead of blasting people’s brains with a wide variety of life-like exotic weapons?
I have two nipples.
So do you.
Should I feel shame about this?
And should you?
No.
But in order to avoid giving the young a complex about sex, it’s better to give them a slow onramp to full on porn.
You KNOW that if nipples are given the green light, all the other sick shit that demeans women, like ATM sex, will pile in there like a freight train, a moment later. You know this. So understand the restriction and follow your interest in nipples by playing with some real ones. Eeesh! It’s the wankers who want this after all.
@Spark
…”You need a credit card to get an iTunes account, so account holder are all over 18 years of age” …
Sorry mate, but YOU DO NOT need a credit card to get an iTunes account.
>>> iTunes Gift Cards <<<
If they allow male nipples but not female nipples I think we have a gender discrimination issue here.
Of course, I know of very few who would object to blocking photos of unsightly manboobs. I might even pay for an app that would do that.
ooofahfoo — you’re an idiot. It’s not about sex, it’s about nudity. The fact that you automatically connect the two in your mind proves the point. THAT’S exactly the thing we need to get beyond.
ooofahfoo = massive FAIL