Apple Rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone Application
Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 4, 2009 - 9:55am.
Cupertino, Calif. - Apple (NASD: AAPL) has rejected an iPhone application from the band Nine Inch Nails, reportedly due to its inclusion of a song with explicit lyrics -- which ironically may be purchased from the company's iTunes Store, frontman Trent Reznor explained in a series of posts on Twitter. Reznor was particularly frustrated with Apple's explanation of the app's removal. "Thanks Apple for the clear description of the problem - as in, what do you want us to change to get past your stupid fucking standards?" Reznor wrote on Twitter.
Some have speculated that the issue is one of parental control, as Apple includes a feature on iTunes that can be used to prevent accounts from purchasing songs marked as having 'explicit' lyrics -- a feature that does not exist for the iPhone.
But Reznor points out that much explicit content is available on the iPhone, if not directly from the App Store.
"Hey Apple, I just got some spam about fucking hot Asian teens through your e-mail program. I just saw two guys having explicit anal sex right there in Safari! On my iPhone!
"Come on Apple, think your policies through and for fuck's sake get your app approval scenario together," Reznor wrote in a post on the band's online forum.
Subject: Lol at this shit about Apple and Nine Inch Nails 
Thu 07 May 2009, 2:07 am
wut a disappointment... but oh well theyre trying to protect all those kids with the iphones