Apple Allows, then Denies Baby Shaker App

New York - Apple doesn’t seem to be able to make a judgment call that it can stick with, when it comes to the Baby Shaker application on its App Store, that carries software for Apple’s iPhone and iPod devices. Apple apparently approved the app, in which you shake a crying baby in order to quiet its cries, and then decided to pull it from the store mere hours after it was discovered there.

Questions abound: why was such an application approved in the first place, when apps that would seem to be much more tame have a hard time making it through the approval process? Why wouldn’t Apple have simply denied the developers the right to publish it on the App Store in the first place? And just where, exactly does Apple draw the line at when it comes to controversial, or offensive content?

There are seemingly more questions than answers right now; but it seems clear that as the App Store becomes a more popular avenue for software distribution, this sort of thing is bound to happen more and more frequently.