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.