Apple Apologizes for Baby Shaker Incident
Apple has officially apologized for the Baby Shaker application that’s been causing such a to-do over the last few days.
Baby Shaker is an iPhone/iPod game that shows an image of a baby, coupled with audio of an infant crying. The user shakes the handset and red x's appear in place of the child’s eyes. Click play again and you're presented with another, different image and more crying.
You can sorta see how such an application would strike a bum note with some folk. Shaken Baby Syndrome is a term used to describe the constellation of signs and symptoms resulting from the violent shaking of an infant or small child. According to the National Center On Shaken Baby Syndrome, research shows crying as the number one trigger leading caregivers to violently shake and injure babies. SBS affects thousands of babies and parents in the United States.
Aside from the National Center On Shaken Baby Syndrome being pretty upset by the application (along with countless other groups/people touched by SBS), many wondered how Apple would let an application like this slip through the approval process when other apps had been rejected for containing swear words. Apple responded to press inquiries yesterday with the following apology:
"This application was deeply offensive and should not have been approved for distribution on the App Store. When we learned of this mistake, the app was removed immediately. We sincerely apologize for this mistake and thank our customers for bringing this to our attention."
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Who cares? I don't get why these kind of things bother people! Why do they have to apologize?
When I was your age we were lucky to only get shaken. Morely likely we would've taken a bullet from Jerry!
Hi, Im a Mac
And Im a PC, What are you doing
Shaken up a baby, it hip
That's such a useless app.
Who cares? I don't get why these kind of things bother people! Why do they have to apologize?
Could be because thousands of people are raising brain damaged children because they got frustrated or desperate when it was a few weeks old. They probably feel bad enough without games that make fun of SBS.
Could be because thousands of people are raising brain damaged children because they got frustrated or desperate when it was a few weeks old. They probably feel bad enough without games that make fun of SBS.
I see what you're saying, I just think are too easily up in arms. I don't think this was marketed at those people. If it doesn't have any effect on you, just don't buy it. I don't think Apple should be held responsible for this.
I in no way encourage shaking your babies though!
That's such a useless app.
It's not alone.
I see what you're saying, I just think are too easily up in arms. I don't think this was marketed at those people. If it doesn't have any effect on you, just don't buy it. I don't think Apple should be held responsible for this.I in no way encourage shaking your babies though!
I get what you're saying in that people are going overboard, but I think it's an exaggeration to say you don't get why these things bother people.
I get what you're saying in that people are going overboard, but I think it's an exaggeration to say you don't get why these things bother people.
Yah, you're probably right. Perhaps that was a bit of an exaggeration. I think we're on the same level now!
If you're seriously offended by it, your skin is not nearly thick enough to live in this world.
that is part of the billion iphone apps.
most iphone apps are useless craps.
I can say up to 80%.(even when you check top 50 apps)
like there is like 10 to 15 apps to make your iphone to be a flash light kind of crap.
Now, I'm not sure why anyone would want to buy that app... But seriously, people who shook their babies are the ones complaining about this app? Shouldn't they be in jail or something??
Seriously, I don't think this app is all that bad, it just needs to carry a message. Wouldn't that be a good tool to get the message across to new or expecting parents? Shake the iphone but instead of just two red Xs on the babie's eyes, splash a big message on screen saying : YOU JUST KILLED YOUR CHILD, NICE WORK DOUCHEBAG! NEVER SHAKE A CHILD!
You could also add a feature so that you could make the baby stop crying by gently rocking the iphone, sing to it (it has mic). Sounds corny, but most people who have an iPhone spend a lot of time dry humping it anyway.
My gawd, Americans are soooooooo PATHETIC. get a backbone and stop crying
I finally figured out why many people don't like Apple. Apple is like a communist country, they control the distribution of apps and hardware for their devices. As with the world, when given a choice between controlled environment and free choice environment people tend to go with freedom.
Shake it baby!
I finally figured out why many people don't like Apple. Apple is like a communist country, they control the distribution of apps and hardware for their devices. As with the world, when given a choice between controlled environment and free choice environment people tend to go with freedom.
The truth is, it has to be a mix of both. Apple probably has a few people over there who realized 95% of the population is dumb as bricks when it comes to technology so they made sure that the apps would be bug free, their hardware couldn't be tampered with (I heard a story about a guy who soldered the extra pins on a cpu because all the pins wouldn't fit in the socket).
The remaining 5% of people who know what they want and know how to use it are pissed because they have to work withing the confines of a system they know can do more.
How a bout a new game called "Snooty Shaker". In the game you play Steve Jobs and you're job is to grab snooty Apple customers and shake them until all their cash falls out.
How a bout a new game called "Snooty Shaker". In the game you play Steve Jobs and you're job is to grab snooty Apple customers and shake them until all their cash falls out.
Fun, but it would never make it though the approval process, since it would offend every one of the apple drones.
This app should have never even been thought of. The fact that someone is sick enough to sit there and think of this is disgusting. When you see what parents go through when their child is either killed by being shaken or has permanent brain damage from it then you might understand why so many of us were outraged at this app. Just amuse me and visit sbsresource.com and watch the video of just a few of the families that have been affected by shaken baby syndrome and then maybe you might understand.
Well, they shouldn't have shaken their baby to death then! Why must they ruin our baby-safe shaking silliness?
You can't blame people with a sense of humor, that have nothing like that on their conscience, for finding this funny.
Boo freaking hooo.. Give me a break.. SO many games mass murdering, stealing, etc.. Yet a shaking baby gets them up in arms.. Get over it. It's not real. I wish one of these big companies would have the balls to simply say Don't like it, don't play it. I'm sick and tired of people trying to stop what I enjoy because their offended. That offends me lol. *I don't play this game, but this goes along the line of other games, movies, music that people get offended over*
There will always be someone offended by something.Apple going to have a app that times how many babies you can stack with a pitchfork in a minute? Seems it would target the same mental midget audience that the Baby Shaker one does.