Apple is adding an "Explicit" section to it's store

There's three possibilities here:

1. They always intended to add the new 'explicit' category, and the recent 'adult' app purge was a stupid and ham-handed way to force developers to change over. 2. They are rapidly back-pedaling after seeing the hue and cry that arose from the app purge. 3. They're not going to do it, and this is just a trap for unwary porn peddlers.

Personally I think #2 is the most likely, but none of these are particularly flattering for Apple. At the root of it, they were either being malicious, stupid, or some mixture of both.

Plus, no matter which one it is, Apple owes an apology to the developers that had their apps pulled. Suddenly pulling the rug out from under your developers is a bad business practice, no matter who those developers are.

"Apple is adding an "Explicit" section to it's store." "Is Apple adding an "Explicit" section to it's store?"

One of these sentences is not like the other.

The title is a bit misleading :)

The cultofmac post's real title says "Is Apple Preparing To Add An ‘Explicit’ Section To The App Store?" , not that they are going to add one For now, there is no evidence that Apple plans to do so.

If Apple was receiving complaints for apps that had women in bikinis cleaning your phone, imagine the deluge they'd get offering "Explicit" material. Perhaps the verbiage would be more finely tuned before release, but they already have "Mature". What's it going to take to get bumped up to that notch that won't piss off the same complainers from before?

This worries me, apple doesn't handle age ratings well. My app shows wikipedia content about parks, and therefore apple made us declare our app 17+. It'd be really bad for us if we had to move to the explicit category.

It's been taken offline for now:

http://gizmodo.com/5479497/apple-removes-explicit-option-fro...

A minimally- and anonymously-substantiated rumor. Even their headline isn't as definite as this one.