Apple: You Can’t Play Jesus on iPhone

[The Straight Story]

Apple: You Can’t Play Jesus on iPhone

Apple has rejected an iPhone app that would enable users to fashion their mugs into portraits resembling Jesus Christ.

The app, called Me So Holy, involves using the iPhone’s camera to snap a mug shot of someone, which can then be scaled and cropped to replace Jesus’ face. Apple rejected the app, saying it “contains objectionable material,” according to Me So Holy developer Benjamin Kahle.

“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users,” the iPhone SDK agreement states.

Apple may be tightening its restrictions on its iPhone App Store after it approved an iPhone app called Baby Shaker, a game whose objective was to shake a baby to death. Amid parental outrage, Apple subsequently removed the app, saying its approval was a mistake.

Though tremendously successful, Apple’s iPhone App Store has been the victim of heavy scrutiny. Other than being criticized for approving questionable apps such as Baby Shaker, some developers have slammed Apple for being unclear about its App Store approval process. For example, FreedomVoice Systems in March told Wired.com that Apple hadn’t said a word about its iPhone voice app Newber for six months, potentially costing the company $600,000 in wasted investments.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/jesusphone/

[Deja Q]

1. How about a pedometer that has two people going at it for every step the walker makes?

Oh, "it" meaning "baking a pie in a Barbie Doll EZ Bake Oven" - though why anybody would want to bake Barbie, I have no idea...

[Xipe Totec]

2. Jesus Wrote a Blank Check

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJUI6TNFmWg

[tuvor]

3. Wow, Over a decade, Palm never restricted any third-party apps.

Too bad they've given up on the Palm OS after tens of thousands of applications.

[Chulanowa]

4. Clearly this calls for Raptor Jesus

[Fumesucker]

5. Umm.... How does Apple know what Jesus looked like?

Last time I checked photography was invented a couple of weeks after Jesus' appointment at Calvary..

Or maybe it was a couple of millennia, I'm not good with dates.