“Baby Shaker” app approved, then quickly yanked from App Store
According to the App Store arbiters of taste that every app passes through, it’s not okay to “ridicule public figures”, fart, or stream “potentially offensive” TV shows. But it was okay to shake a baby, apparently, in one of the nastier instances of Apple app apathy.

Yes, that’s right, Apple approved an app called “Baby Shaker,” before jerking it out of the store hours later. But not before many could download it, which, according to the founder of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, encourages people to shake real babies, which isn’t good, since according to the founder of the Stop Shaken Baby Syndrome because many are in “the population group that is already statistically the most likely to shake babies.” It’s painfully simple—there’s a black-and-white sketch of baby that cries annoyingly until you shake the phone enough to make it stop, at which point a pair of red X’s appear over its eyes.
The app is so poorly made it’s definitely not worth 99 cents. But, yeah, how does that approval process work again? How carefully are apps reviewed really? It points up all kinds of nasty questions.
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