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• No dogs were harmed in the making of this post

  Dec. 11, 2009 at 16:26:35 CET

  If you are planning to add some jokes to your application descriptions in the App Store, be warned that Apple has started to be picky about them.

  Yesterday I got a phone call from Cupertino regarding Uncyclopedic, telling me I had to remove some dog raping references from the description before it could be approved. The offending lines were:

   - I assure you Uncyclopedic didn't rape my dog
  * Noel Coward on Uncyclopedic
  

  Uncyclopedic is no more than an iPhone reader for the Uncyclopedia, which is intended as a joke encyclopedia. Since I've seen animal raping jokes used a lot of times when talking about experimental software, I thought that it could be funny to software developers reading it. But it seems either I was wrong (English is not my first language) or either we have a new reason for app rejections.

  Anyway, since this app had been waiting for approval since September, I just changed those lines to read:

   - I assure you Uncyclopedic didn't harm my dog
  * Noel Coward on Uncyclopedic
  

  Which looked like good enough for the app review team.

  Tags:

  • cocoa
  • iphone

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