Sex is great in books, lousy in apps, says Apple

Missed a bit from this.

“We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App.”

Or indeed download it from some celebrities Icloud account ....

"We have lots of serious developers who don't want their quality Apps to be surrounded by amateur hour"

You mean like Farting Apps? Yeah, you don't want those. Whoops, too late.

Apple don't like sex

Because it's something which even they would find hard to claim to have invented.

Enforcement?

Given there are already plenty of crap apps, and given that it is a closed ecosystem so people just starting out coding may find it difficult to catch up with the big players, and given that there are already plenty of apps with unrestricted (and unrestrictable) internet access to send who knows what information back every time you start that app...

...how do they intend to enforce these rules? An app may not data mine? What if one does? What then?

Or is it just smoke and mirrors?

Bah!

I see by the terms and conditions printed in the article that Apple still charmingly believe they are in control and that people can't do evil stuff on an apple device because.

Just because.

“a living document that will evolve as we are presented with new Apps and situations”

To me, that's code for "We'll make arbitrary changes to it so that we can get rid of people we don't like"

OK. Let me be as specific as possible. I put LEGAL PR0N in all formats- written, pictural, video, whatever- on my Apple iPOD. It is an iPOD TOUCH. This is IRONIC because of the word touch and because Apple thinks that banning an "app" will stop my reckless behavior.

SO IRONIC. SO HISPTER.