["Dirty Fingers" App]

There are limits, and Apple is slowly showing that they draw the line when it comes to objectify women.  Well at least Apple shows their concern when people or women are complaining.  It was not until last June that Apple placed parental controls on racy apps.  Most recently, Apple banned applications such as “Dirty Fingers” and “Sexy Scratch Off” [via NYT].  ”Dirty Fingers” was an app that featured a young women in a bikini cleaning the screen of the iPhone screen and “Sexy Scratch Off” was an app where a woman’s clothes could be quickly removed with one quick swipe of a finger.  Currently some people seem upset with this new development, but Apple is listening to the female audience.  Maybe they should have listened to more women before naming the iPad.

HOWEVER, after removing 5,000 “overtly sexual” apps,  MacRumors confirms that “Apple has added a new “Explicit” category in the iTunes Connect system for App Store submissions. The category is included in drop-down menus that allow developers to select categories for their applications to be placed in, and appears alongside the traditional App Store categories such as ‘Books’, ‘Entertainment’, and ‘Games’.”  No one knows for sure why Apple has added this feature, but clearly Apple is starting to listen to someone else…maybe pervy developpers and users.