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RIM Trying To Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps?
AZA43 writes "Everybody knows that BlackBerry-maker RIM is hurting these days. But is it hurting enough to try to attract new customers with the promise of porn and/or gambling apps? A new rating system added to RIM's BlackBerry App World store suggests that it just may be that desperate. The new 'Adult' rating covers, 'graphic sexual content, graphic nudity,' 'graphic violence,' and gambling apps 'as permitted by law.' And that suggests RIM will allow this kind of content into App World, in stark contrast to Apple's no-porn-on-the-iPhone stand."
Why are you asking a question... isnt reporting supposed to answer questions?
It is like when the news asks "Why are gas prices so high?" and then never answer it, but instead focus on the woes of the common person having to pay $200/week because they opted in on that oversized pickup that made their penis seem bigger.
Rant Off....
Why not! are they like a catholic company or something!!
What could compete with the glory of undulating breasts in 1080p?
How about a real woman's breasts undulating in front of you?
As a follow up to my own post (after reader through more links), I am baffled where the author of the article got that graphic because RIM's dev blog has a different graphic - http://rimdevblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/app-world-content-rating-1.jpg - and it has a very different limit to sexual content.
To quote:
"Black Berry App World will not accept apps with graphic nudity."
So, while the article's graphic pretty clearly does describe porn, I am baffled as to where that graphic came from...
Seems like quite the FUD to me...