Apple Decides 3rd Party Apps Are Filled With Smut!

Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence

Wow! Sounds like a real scumbag app huh?  Except that is the warning for "readMe" which is described as "Simple yet crisp clean and competitive eBook reader for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch with EPUB, FB2 and PDF support."

Yes, an eBook reader identical in function to Apple's own iBooks app.  Both are eBook readers capable of reading any eBook in a supported format that you can download or buy.

Imagine going to buy a television set and being told that you had to be over 17 because the set MIGHT be used to view shows not suited for children, even though you only want to watch your new 70th Anniversary Edition The Wizard of Oz on Blu-ray.  Then again, a number of the warnings above would apply to this movie.

I'd guess that Apple is covering their corporate butts because the customer MAY decide to download a book not suitable for children.  Based on the way Apple does this, I'd have to assume that iBooks has a built-in censor to stop you from reading Lady Chatterly's Lover, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Stephen King books, etc.  I have to assume this because Apple doesn't apply such rules to iBooks, Safari, etc.

That's right, Safari as the 3rd party web browser, Opera comes with a similar warning.   In fact, I've noticed these "rules" on a lot of 3rd party browsers and other apps which may freely display content of the customer's choice from the internet.  But those "rules" never appear on Apple products, only on 3rd party products which compete with Apple products.