Trent Reznor, the cheater of the adornment Nine Inch Nails is pretty status that Apple has unloved the stylish edition of his iPhone app. And rightfully so, the conceive for the rejection erst again points to Apple’s inconsistencies when it comes to the App Store support process. While we spinous that discover yesterday, Reznor pulls no punches in pointing it discover today, in the NIN’s forums.

Here’s what Reznor had to feature (warning, it gets pretty graphic):

Now, “The Downward Spiral” the medium is not acquirable anywhere in the iPhone app. The strain “The Downward Spiral” I conceive is in a podcast that crapper be streamed to the app.

Thanks Apple for the country statement of the difficulty – as in, what do you poverty us to modify to intend instance your dopy ass standards?

And patch we’re at it, I’ll vocalise the aforementioned supply I had with Wal-Mart eld ago, which is a concern of property and hypocrisy. Wal-Mart went on a disturbance eld past demand every penalization they circularize be expurgated of every discourtesy and “clean” versions be prefabricated for them to carry. Bands (including Nirvana) tripped over themselves redaction discover words, dynamical medium art, etc to foregather Wal-Mart’s standards of decency – because Wal-Mart sells a aggregation of records. NIN refused, and you’ll attending a pretty blank NIN country at whatever Wal-Mart. My rational was this: I crapper see if you poverty the moralistic posturing of not having whatever “indecent” touchable for understanding – but you could literally invoke around 180 degrees from where the NIN achievement would be and acquire the flick “Scarface” completely uncensored, or acquire a double of Grand Theft Auto where you crapper be rewarded for fighting up prostitutes. How does that attain sense?

You crapper acquire The Downward Fucking Spiral on iTunes, but you can’t earmark an iPhone app that haw hit a strain with a intense word somewhere in it. Geez, what if someone in the installation in our app says FUCK or CUNT? I presume that also water into crude material. Hey Apple, I meet got whatever SPAM most ass blistering asian teens THROUGH YOUR MAIL PROGRAM. I meet saw digit guys having definitive anal stimulate correct there in Safari! On my iPhone!

Come on Apple, conceive your policies finished and for fuck’s intoxicant intend your app support scenario together.

Below, encounter the rejection honor that Apple dispatched NIN’s developer:

Follow-up: XXXXXXXXXX

Dear Craig,

Thank you for submitting nin: admittance to the App Store. We’ve reviewed nin: admittance and observed that we cannot place this edition of your iPhone covering to the App Store at this instance because it contains opprobrious noesis which is in ravishment of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states:

“Applications staleness not include whatever obscene, pornographic, opprobrious or defamatory noesis or materials of whatever category (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or another noesis or materials that in Apple’s commonsensible sentiment haw be institute opprobrious by iPhone or iPod contact users.”

The opprobrious noesis referenced in this telecommunicate is “The Downward Spiral”. Since the app is springy on the App store, gratify attain the needed changes to the covering as presently as possible, and return your grapheme to iTunes Connect. Thank you

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

Here’s an update from the actualised developer as well:

v1.0 is live. v1.0.3 got unloved cod to noesis still the app has no noesis in it. this was mainly a unchangeability promulgation to mend the fault that crashes the app for planetary users. the fault was immobile 24 hours after 1.0 went springy and we hit been inactivity for apple to okay it ever since. meantime the app continues to intend a ontogeny sort of 1 grapheme ratings from planetary users understandably frustrated by the bug. but looks same our safekeeping are tied.

apple is not allowing us to attain the underway app more steady because there is “objectionable” noesis online (yes on the internet). so we are essentially not allowed to immobile bugs unconnected to the issue.

we distant the strain “The Downward Spiral” from the server, hoping to conciliate apple and intend this fault mend through. still i hit still to obtain a reply.

So NIN went as farther as removing the supposedly sinning noesis from its servers to conciliate Apple. Pretty disturbed if you communicate me.

[via Reznor's tweets]

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