Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"

  • You'd think they'd have the sense to use something like "example.com", which could never possibly have such content.

  • It's not a bug, it's a feature.

  • > Update: most likely, the problem arises because of links: the people responsible for iTunes, put the “temporary” link type xx.xx.xx. That’s just such a site exists, and, as we have seen today, has nothing to do with the ideals of the company.Waiting for the fix.

    This is certainly a new hallmark of lorem-ipsum-dummy-code-type error.

  • I used to work for a startup that used acmecorp.com in all their demos and all over the documentation. It turned out the company behind the domain name didn't really appreciate getting dozens upon dozens of "confirm your registration" emails... but they did say we weren't the only offenders.

  • Ironic that our iOS app got rejected today for “mature themes”.

  • Apple had another similar issue with itunes searches that they just recently fixed -- searches for taboo words returning a lot of results:

    http://blog.appstorerankings.net/blog/2012/10/28/itunes-sear...

  • They didn't test it before deployment?!

  • pics or it didn't happen