iTunes store Kama Sutra gives Apple warm cheeks

Apple has rejected an e-book reader from the iTunes store on the grounds that users might download a copy of the Kama Sutra - despite the same content being available in half a dozen other applications including Safari. Eucalyptus is an app that downloads content from Project Gutenberg, and presents it with a pretty interface …

[James]

Oh my god...

.. as if most of the youth of today would know what "Lingam" was - most probably think it's an exotic fruit found at Tescos....

[Anonymous Coward]

I dont get it

Sex -- everyone does it. If they didnt then we wouldnt be here.

[StooMonster]

Too rude for prude

I always find it ironic that Americans think that the British are prudes with Victorian values -- or at least portray the nation that way in movies and on television -- when in fact the British are quite the opposite and USA demonstrates again and again that Americans are as prude an Islamic Republic.

This is no surprise, but it is madness.

[Aaron]

Wow what a joke

Srsly, it's shit like this that keeps me away from Apple products. Great hardware, great software, management incompetent to tie its own fuckin' shoes. (Which is why all those VP types wear penny loafers -- they're no longer clever enough to manage boots on their own.)

[Richard]

Huh

I think Apple should bend over backwards to get the Kama Sutra in your hands.

[Cameron Colley]

I don't understand.

You buy a piece of hardware then you get you applications from the sources who serve your needs the best, surely?

Or, you buy an Apple life.

*remembers to ask for a refund from T-Mobile since the full internet is not available on their "Web 'n' Walk" plan.

[Mage]

HE should

Develop for all the sensible platforms.

Obviously Apple are clueless and can't tell the difference between a Search&Render tool or built in content.

Either they should remove Safari or allow any application.

[Geoffrey W]

RE: I dont get it

<QUOTE>Sex -- everyone does it. If they didnt then we wouldnt be here.</QUOTE>

If you don't get it soon then there will be a few people who aren't here. Try lowering your expectations.

[James O'Brien]

Heh

Ive been polishing the trouser snake for years without a problem....

Then again my eyesight sucks, I have to shave my palms and all that stuff....

OMG APPLE IS RIGHT I SHOULD REPENT MY EVIL WAYS AND BUY ONLY THEIR PRODUCTS BECAUSE MY IMMORALITY IS GOING TO BE THE END OF ME!!!!!

ODFO Apple. There is HISTORIC work and porn. Figure out which one you dont want and let the other be.

Twats.

/Fuck going AC I really dont care

[Anonymous Coward]

@James O'Brien

ODFO Apple? How about aiming that ODFO at the prudish "christian" right in America? As yourself why Apple take these measures. Bad press you imbecile. Apple hold the keys to the store, so who do the parents sue when little James looks at porn on his phone? Thats right, Apple. I don't think for one minute that these draconian measures are aimed at the European market, but Apples hands are tied. But hey, you get to bank your drum, spouting you vitriolic rhetoric in the direction of Cupertino, waving your self-righteous finger and wiping away the foam from you mouth. You, my friend, need to get a life...

[Bryce Prewitt]

Still not sure...

...why iPhone users put up with being unable to simply browse to a website and install software from it.

You know... like every other smartphone ever.

Fucking retards.

[snafu]

nobody stone anybody until I blow this whistle

What bad press? The "it has a web browser so your child inevitably can surf extreme porn sites" or the "it has access to Project Gutemberg so your boy could, you know, read a book now and then, if he or you pay for the relevant iPhone application"?

[Pavlovs well trained dog]

Certain insects

I live in africa - and whilst it's true that most of the insects that live in the trees here abouts will cause a massive swelling when rubbed against skin, I'm not sure its the kind of swelling you'd want.

[Anonymous Coward]

iDiots

Yet no matter how many times Apple kicks its costumers and so forth in the testicels they keep coming back to support Apple.. go figure.

[Anonymous Coward]

the religous right

One day, we'll all look back, suck air noisily thru our teeth, pause for a moment and reflect how unbelievable it is that back in the early part of the 21st century, the religious fuckwits still held sway over society

How - unthinkable as it may seem - companies like Apple (and Microshaft, and the likes of Coke and Pepsi) had to develop strategies that let them carefully negotiate the veto and boycott power of utterly evil organisations called 'churches'

How schools had to dance a delicate line around creationism and real science.

Then we'll sit back, sip on our beers and be utterly grateful that shit died away

well.. I hope that's how it pans out, anyway

[crypt]

Open Sauce Comment

This Is another reason for me not to buy an iphone .

[Dave]

Reasoning

Does anyone at all, just possibly, think that the reason given isn't actually the reason that Apple don't want this app?

Since several people have pointed out that this stuff is available in other ways, it is reasonable to assume that this is just an excuse, so no point getting all upset over it.

Actually, what _is_ the point of this app? Is Project Gutenburg not already available via the web directly?

[whoami]

iPhone=SmartPhone; Surely U must be Joking Mr Feynman

@ Bryce Prewitt

<quote>...why iPhone users put up with being unable to simply browse to a website and install software from it.

You know... like every other smartphone ever.</quote>

But er U know, the iPhone is not a smartphone.

[Anonymous Coward]

@Dave

Hold your horses there. You're suggesting that applications for the iPhone need to serve a purpose, and that ideally, it should be a purpose unfulfilled by another app?

One million tip calculators and soundboards would like a word with you.

[TeeCee]

But does it work?

The insect bristles and oils thing.

I feel an email campaign offering bargain insect bristles to lusers coming on and it'd be nice to have some testimonials (ooooeeerrr) to add vesimilitude to the scam.

Mines the one with the pocket full of lingams (4.99 a pound at Waitrose).