Racy Content Banned from iPhone App Store

The dark secret of the Internet has always been that the most successful businesses were in the markets that no one likes to speak about: adult content and gambling. But the iPhone has experienced growth and adoption without serving those markets. Terms of the App Store prohibit applications that are considered objectionable content. With the growing trend of releasing ebooks in application form (rather than relying on the user to download a reader application and then get to a book), some titles are running afoul of Apple’s strict policy on adult material.

David Carnoy, a writer for CNET, recently had his detective thriller Knife Music rejected on grounds that it contained “objectionable content.”

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