PC gone mad... Apple pulls baby shaker iPhone app

jackdaw

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8015705.stm

mad ... .

samhail

oh now your not allowed to shake a baby ?

mukki

as another computer game character (Duke Nukem) once said



"shake it baby"

tallus

I thought this thread was going to be about motherboard issues and the like:D

dr.bollocko

It's not a PC mate it's just an iphone.

javaboy

dr.bollocko wrote: »

It's not a PC mate it's just an iphone.

Just an iPhone? JUST an iPhone? Didn't you see the ad? It's going to change EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING man! Well, you know not everything. Like there'll still be war and other bad sh1t and I don't think it's going to halt the economic downward slide or anything. But anything in the line of shiny overpriced phones and it's the bee's pyjamas.

Turd Ferguson

mukki wrote: »

as another computer game character (Duke Nukem) once said

"I've got balls of steel"

IvySlayer

javaboy wrote: »

Just an iPhone? JUST an iPhone? Didn't you see the ad? It's going to change EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING man! Well, you know not everything. Like there'll still be war and other bad sh1t and I don't think it's going to halt the economic downward slide or anything. But anything in the line of shiny overpriced phones and it's the bee's pyjamas.

*hugs tight*

He didn't mean it.

Anyway, who in the right mind thought of this game and who honestly bought it

biko

There is a "Shaken Baby Syndrome"? Wow, learnt something new today.

Queen-Mise

dr.bollocko wrote: »

It's not a PC mate it's just an iphone.

Is there a chance the OP was refererring to Political Correctness rather than a Personal Computer.

dr.bollocko

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Is there a chance the OP was refererring to Political Correctness rather than a Personal Computer.

PC? Politically correct?
How very dare you.

dade

i'd say Louise Woodward would love this app

Dudess

Mac gone mad.

Dudess

Magnus wrote: »

There is a "Shaken Baby Syndrome"? Wow, learnt something new today.

Dude, you couldn't avoid hearing about it during the Louise Woodward trial!

Seriously though OP, how is it "PC gone mad" (the phrase always uttered by those with views to the right of Genghis Khan and usually in reference to stuff that isn't actually "PC gone mad")?

Quazzie

Just heard ex-nanny Louise Woodward is back in England and working at her local McDonalds.

All kids get a free shake.

toiletduck

Sick. Glad it's been pulled. Like that game a while back in which you could kill people and that other one where you indulged in morally questionable acts. Glad they nipped that in the bud too.

JIZZLORD

how is removing this app "pc gone mad"?
it's just common sense!

dr.bollocko

Yes.
Video games absolutely cause violence.
And car theft. I wouldn't be able to get to work in the morning without my car theft triangle.
And I'd be starving too if it weren't for all them full hams and chickens people keep leaving out on the road.

twanda

JIZZLORD wrote: »

how is removing this app "pc gone mad"?
it's just common sense!

absolutely. Unless the OP actually condones shaking babies, this is not PC gone mad - this is one case where the PC brigade is actually right.
Who in the name of God approved that game to go on sale in the first place? They should have their head examined..

Turd Ferguson

Shaking babies? Thats CP gone mad I tells ya

dr.bollocko

twanda wrote: »

absolutely. Unless the OP actually condones shaking babies, this is not PC gone mad - this is one case where the PC brigade is actually right.
Who in the name of God approved that game to go on sale in the first place? They should have their head examined..

Nobody is condoning shaking babies.
The app doesn't magically send a baby to your phone over GPRS for you to shake.
You are actually just shaking an iphone with a picture of a baby on it.
Which is certainly sad. But hardly likely to actually upset anyone or result in any more dead babies.

dr.bollocko

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Shaking babies? Thats CP gone mad I tells ya

Well you're just outrageous.

Peep O'Day

absolutely outrageous that the game was pulled. now it sounds as if its a sh!t game but thats besides the point. how this game is pulled and ones that involve mindless murder arent is beyond me.(i dont think they should be banned btw) surely paying prostitutes only to chop off their head with a katana afterwords is worse than shaking a baby!!

biko

Game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAM9VFM6HzY
Glad they pulled it

ejmaztec

There was never a fuss with bouncing babies, something I would thought caused more damage (especially if you bounce 'em too hard and they smash your ceiling lights).

Woger

Use of pc gone mad gone mad. Christ I feel like Alan Partridge spewing the most over used and misused catch phrase going.
Hopefully they come up with a put the pillow over the baby app.