blocking adult apps in app store?

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blocking adult apps in app store?

Listen, I like sex and **** as much as the next guy, but the adult apps in the app store are driving me crazy! It's like pollution.

Is there anything at all that I can do about this? It seems like the parental controls simply block the downloading and installation of adult apps, but you still have to wade through the crap while browsing the app store.

I'd be grateful for any assistance offered.

(P.S. Apple, if you happen to read this, one solution would be to simply create a new category in the app store for adult apps and have them listed there and only there. Then, I can browse them if I want to but don't have to skip over them if I'm not looking for adult content.)

12" Powerbook G4 1.5ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jul 23, 2009 9:30 AM

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DubbleD

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Jul 23, 2009 10:17 AM in response to yeahmon

I agree. There needs to be a way to stop even the loading of the apps descriptions, not just the download.

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Chris CA

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Jul 29, 2009 12:17 PM in response to LeMac

I think that if you have the settings in the "parental controls" set to avoid this stuff, that when you're browsing on that particular device that it shouldn't even show these as being available.

-> http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

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yeahmon Author

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Jul 23, 2009 9:54 AM in response to Anna Sandham

Maybe I should qualify, since I realize that my original post is a little vague.

When I say "adult", I don't mean hardcore or anything. I'm simply referring to the dozens and dozens of apps that are all about sexy images of women, or, say, the vibrator app.

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yeahmon Author

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Jul 23, 2009 10:32 AM in response to DubbleD

I really think that simply creating an Adult category in the app store is the solution, but I suspect that it would be complicated by how apps are categorized. An app can appear in several categories, can't it? And would Apple really be willing to limit Adult apps to only being listed in one category?

So, I take it that there really is nothing I can do?

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Bryan Mick

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Jul 23, 2009 10:49 AM in response to yeahmon

All you can do is provide feedback via the link that Anna provided earlier.

Personally, I when I browse the App Store, I typically only see a few of these apps, and I find it quite easy to simply ignore them.
Also, I don't usually browse by category, but I check the top lists... as such, placing them into an adult category won't change anything for me.

Cheers!
-Bryan

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yeahmon Author

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Jul 23, 2009 10:54 AM in response to Bryan Mick

Thanks, Bryan. I will submit the feedback form, and you bring up a good point about how these apps will still show up in the top lists.

That said, I think you'd see just how many of these apps are out there if you browse by category. It's really a drag, imo.

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LeMac

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Jul 29, 2009 10:44 AM in response to yeahmon

I think that if you have the settings in the "parental controls" set to avoid this stuff, that when you're browsing on that particular device that it shouldn't even show these as being available.

Why would you allow the device to "offer" these to an under-age user and to those that don't want them? It is like pollution.

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Answer 8

Jul 23, 2009 9:40 AM in response to yeahmon

really? where are you looking? can't say i've ever come across any 'adult' apps.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

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