If American Pie can have boobs on show, why can't apps?
iPhone developer Outbound City has hit out at Apple's submissions guidelines for the App Store, saying they don't match its policy on downloadable movies in its iTunes Store.
The company's complaint focuses on its own Action Babes application, which involves users entering 42 text commands to make two scanty-clad women respond. It's the famous Subservient Chicken web viral reinvented for the Nuts/Zoo generation. Sort of.
Anyway, Outbound City's point is that it wanted to include topless scenes, but they appear to be barred by Apple's self-evaluation policy, despite the fact that films like American Pie are available in its iTunes Store.
"Are there two scales to evaluate apps and movies?" they write in an open letter published on their website.
"Isn't the auto-evaluation confusing for the app producers? We believe that at this time a lot of developers are wasting time and money since the introduction of the parental controls and this is Apple's responsibility."
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ME readers may find it hard massing ranks behind an app like Action Babes, but the disparity between the App Store's content rules and those of the iTunes Store could become an issue for other kinds of apps too - games, for example.
