"Apple gets rid of ‘Baby Shaker’ app after complaints
Apple has apparently rethought its decision to allow an iPhone application that lets you to shake a baby to death to quiet its crying.
“Baby Shaker,” a simple app from Sikalosoft, was first released Monday for 99 cents. It shows pictures of babies with the sound of them crying and a stop watch. To stop the crying, you shake the iPhone hard and then little Xs appear on the eyes of the baby, who will presumably never cry again.
Apple apparently pulled the app sometime Wednesday afternoon after blogs and sites such as TechCrunch and Cnet caught on to the story.
Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, which fights pediatric brain injuries, took Apple to task in a letter, saying, “As the father of a 3-year-old who was shaken by her baby nurse when she was only 5 days old, breaking three ribs, both collarbones and causing a severe brain injury, words cannot describe my reaction.”
Apple has had a strict policy on screening apps for content, which has not always been popular with developers. Apple has approved apps like “Beer Goggles” and a raft of gas-passing apps. But the company has also denied apps that dealt with sexual themes, drug use or violence, even in apps designed as games."
Apple is pretty strict on some of the Apps that get through, so I'm amazed that this App got yanked only AFTER complaints stopped pouring in.
I can't imagine the developer saying "Ah yes! This will open a whole new market for Sociopath Games!"
Then after development (and revisions and bug fixes no doubt) Apple warmly receiving the Application and putting it on their App Store.
I wonder how many downloaded it. Awesome use of 99 cents, bro.
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