by Tim Goggin on March 1, 2010
If you haven’t already heard the internet buzzing: Apple deleted some apps from its store for being too racy or “overtly sexual”.
How many? Well to be exact, they deleted around 5,000 apps (that’s 3% of the total apps in the store).
BANNED APPS
Is this a move hasty or too brash?
My Opinion:
I don’t know if deleting the apps all together is completely necessary. I mean as adults you should be able to make your choice as to what you want to read about or look at, but there should be some type of “Child-Proofing” on the offensive material.
Maybe include a “Parental Discretion Advised ” label to them, forcing kids to add in their birthday (like alcohol websites do) before accessing that section. Apple could also add a separate section in which you could access the naughty apps. Or better yet devise easy to use parental advisory settings on the devices themselves.
All in all, I think it was a good idea that some type of action was at least taken, but one part does confuse me. With apps being deleted left and right for having women in bikinis, how is the Playboy app still up and running? Plus, we have also just heard that “Wobble” is back in action as well- but this time it has the offensive images removed from its marketing materials.
So in conclusion, we are hoping that since all of these inappropriate apps can never be fully eradicated, maybe there just can be a section for them.
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by Tim Goggin on March 1, 2010
With 3D movies like Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs, Toy Story, and of course the huge ground breaking, award winning Avatar, we all know that 3D film is all the rage lately.
So it’s only a matter of time until we have the capability to have our own television sets in 3D and our favorite shows begin to become available in 3D. Sure it will probably start with small HBO and Showtimes specials, but in time, I truly believe a lot of television will become available in 3D, just like the technology for HDTV and BluRay DVDs now.
You have to admit, when you watch those BluRay DVDs, they are only a step away from being 3D.
Until now we have only thought about the possibility of 3D film to require special glasses, which could deter some people from becoming huge fans.
Luckily for us, according to PC World “Within the next few years, companies from Taiwan may begin selling LCD TVs with 3D (three-dimensional) viewing technology that does not require the special glasses normally used in movie theaters to show 3D films”
Then there are always those other details to work out, such as what happened when we upgraded from VHS to DVD then to BluRay.
So this is going to mean new TV sets, 3D DVD players, shows developed in 3D, already made films to be tweeked to work in 3D and other issues to fix.
Also, what about sports? I couldn’t leave those off! If only sports could become available in 3D, but in all honesty, I don’t see that coming available anytime too soon.
So how realistic is this? Well…
Panasonic and Sony have already made announcements that they are going to come out with 3D TVs. So let’s all cross our fingers and hope for sooner than later!!
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