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In the ever-expanding iPhone app store, there are some helpful, fun and downright awesome sources of information and entertainment. That said, every so often an app shows up that makes us wonder what the hell the people at Apple were thinking (if they were, in fact, thinking when they approved it).
We are speaking, of course, about the now infamous 'Baby Shaker' app that went on sale Monday, according to TechCrunch and the Telegraph. The app allows users to, you guessed it, shake a crying baby to death (you know the baby is dead because when she stops crying two red X's cover her eyes). Simply shake the phone as hard as you can, and the stupid baby shuts up.
The application, created by San Francisco-based company Sikilasoft, has already been pulled, but the fact that it ever gained approval leaves us dumbfounded. We are all for creative entertainment, and for pushing boundaries, but this is ridiculous. Get it together, Apple. [From: TechCrunch and The Telegraph]
[UPDATE: In a rare backpedal by Apple, the company has issued a public apology, stating that the "application was deeply offensive and should not have been approved for distribution on the App Store." Check out Cnet to read the full apology.]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsmelApr 24th 2009 9:58AM
OMG....WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO????? ITS BAD ENOUGH WE HAVE PEOPLE KILLING OUR CHILDREN, NOW WE HAVE GAMES THAT ALLOW IT?? SICK SICK SICK.
lsudolApr 24th 2009 11:40AM
awww that sux... now all those frustrated 1st time parents will have to take out their postpartum depression on the real thing... apple for the fail
ChadApr 24th 2009 1:17PM
More offensive than the 1 billion and counting farting apps on the itunes store?
clowncarApr 24th 2009 5:24PM
SHAKE IT LIKE A SALT SHAKER
skyfrog69Apr 24th 2009 6:48PM
That's what's wrong with this country; we're so afraid of offending someone that we can't express any sense of humor. What happened to 'if you don't like it, don't buy it/watch it'? I'm sick of all the politically correct pu**ies out there. I guarantee all of you a swift and painful death when I become Master of the Universe...right after I hurt your feelings and offend your soul. For now, I will content myself with shaking real babies to death since I can no longer do it in effigy.
mightymouseApr 28th 2009 9:13PM
interesting comment. While your right bout u view on a persons freedom of speech
everything, peole these days are so inudated with so many wonderful things these days r that they perhaps take for granted that a person will display better judgement
with public comments and keep them silent to themselves. Right? n consider this for a m o ment , you are a parent who - and mos t all parents love their children, ......good luck on ruler of the universe thing. FUNNY.