Gas = Great, Liquid = Good, Solid = Denied
Talking Poo
A fun new application, one actually conceived by my seven-year-old daughter, has been denied approval by the Apple App Store because it contains “objectionable” content. It seems this app is in violation of the following policy:
“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”
The Talking Poo application is a cartoon representation of a Poo. It comes complete with facial features, it listens to your voice, and it mimes along with everything you say. Clearly, this is a very friendly and agreeable Poo, and everyone who sees it can’t help but laugh out loud.
The App Store contains a variety of Farting applications, many of which contain graphics of a more extreme nature than those of our darling Talking Poo. If you’re not looking for a Farting app, you can also select from myriad Vomit applications, some of which graphically pile up the chunks while you listen to the pleasant sounds of retching. Despite its would-be neighbours, Talking Poo has unfortunately been excluded from the community.
The Talking Poo application is part of the best-selling Talking Character series produced by Gigabyte Solutions, which includes a Talking Cat, Talking Dog and Talking Camel among many others.
http://www.gigabytesol.com
on Jan 25th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
The injustice!! Maybe all you need is to rename it Talking Fudge or Mr. Doo. The tightasses at the App Store may be able to reject Poo, but creative interpretation may fall outside their jurisdiction.
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on Jan 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I’ve tried renaming it to Talking Snake (a brown one)
Let’s see how that goes.
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