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Apple becomes blasphemy police

by on12 May 2009

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We didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition


Maker of
expensive fruity toys Apple has decided to conduct a holy inquisition of religious applications for sale on its iPhone store.

Not satisfied with deciding what users should watch, Apple has ruled that anything it thinks might be religiously offensive should also be banned. The first one in Jobs' Mobs' sights was a religious photo parody app called "Me So Holy." (I remember spending some time with it in Hue City, back in 1968. sub.ed.)

Apple insists the app is "objectionable." Basically "Me So Holy" is similar to another program called the "The Animaliser," which lets you scale and crop your photograph (or your friends', or celebrities') onto an animal's. "Me So Holy" lets you replace Jesus's face with yours.
Despite the fact that there is a good deal of religious precedent for doing this, in fact seeing yourself as Christ to understand the crucifixion was one of the spiritual exercises for monks in the Middle Ages, Apple is having none of it.

While it is true that Apple can sell what it likes from its own store, it has not really given developers  any guidelines to what the wacky people at Cappuccino are going to approve.  Sticking your own face on the body of the Buddha is no less silly than iFart which has made a lot of money for its developer and for Apple, or "Soft Serve Poop Machine."

We think it is just that Apple is miffed that among the list of Messiahs included in the application, Steve Jobs wasn't one of them.  That is blasphemy in Apple fan bois' book.
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