“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.”
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