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Is Apple taking the PG apps too far?

We’ve somehow been steering clear of this one for the last few days but now it is getting a bit comical so here we go.  Apple, for some reason just went “anti-sexual content” in their App Store approval process, killing some 5,000 current applications that had some sort of bouncing (covered) boobs or tight pants or something that App Store guys/gals deemed sexually inappropriate.

So one of the guys at the center of this, jonaeu from Chilifresh who got their Wobble app pulled, spoke to an Apple representative who laid out the new rules which, we have to say, made us chuckle:

1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)

2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn

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