Apple gives Hottest Girls the cold shoulder

by Stevie Smith - Jun 29 2009, 15:15

Despite developer claims that sheer weight of popularity temporarily prevented access to the naked boobs offered through its ‘Hottest Girls’ application for iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple Inc. has now stepped in and officially blocked the contentious app.

The blatant boobage in question sprang up on the App Store last week after Hottest Girls developer Allen Leung integrated a service upgrade that introduced fully naked photos as opposed to strictly suggestive snaps of girls in bikinis and lingerie.

The upgrade, which marked Hottest Girls as the App Store’s first application to offer full nudity, resulted in suggestions that Apple was shirking its responsibility and turning a blind eye to adult material thanks to incoming parental controls and an age verification platform in the iPhone 3.0 SDK.

Evidently that isn’t the case, however, with Apple now deciding to yank Hottest Girls, with a spokesman for the Cupertino-based computer and gadgetry titan explaining that the company "will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography."

"The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content," outlined Apple.

"This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program," it added. "The application is no longer available on the App Store."

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