Bottling iPhone app riles parents, recommended 9+
Mindless violence for 9-year olds
There’s a media storm brewing today in the UK over a cartoony iPhone app that transforms the phone into a cartoon bottle to simulate ‘bottling’ someone.
You swing the iPhone in the manner of a drunken lout, and the bottle then proceeds to break and drip with blood.
The reviews for the app have been fairly negative, with the most commonly used word being ‘disgusting’.
More alarming for the Apple censors though is that not only is the ‘simulation’ of bottling a human fine to go through, but it’s actually rated for any age above 9-years-old, citing ‘cartoon violence’ as the primary concern.
So it can bypass any parental locks on your child’s iPhone you carefully enabled (you did enable them, right?)
The app, which won’t be named for publicity reasons, is a sequel to a slightly less graphic version of bottling released last month.
The fact that the two apps managed to make it through despite a much publicised animal clubbing app being banned will raise a few eyebrows among certain quarters worried of Apple’s double-standards when it comes to censorship.
Telegraph