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Why Apple Banned Sex Apps: We Were Getting Complaints From Women [Apple]

 

Over the past few days we’ve watched app after app after app become a casualty in Apple’s gradual clean up of the App Store —a ban on nearly all titillating apps. Apple executive Phil Schiller finally explains what happened: It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see.

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More Apps, More Problems: How the iPad Will Change the App Store

 

It doesn’t really matter what you think of the iPad itself, because love it or loathe it, it will irreversibly change the landscape of the App Store . Here’s how.

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The Apple Tablet Interface Must Be Like This

 

Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X’s user interface . Others think its UI will be something exotic.

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How To Guides: The Best of 2009

 

As any diligent weekend reader knows, we don’t just find and explain the news around here, we like to do stuff; hack things; make gadgets better . Here’s the cream of this year’s how to guide crop: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends : Getting PCs and Macs to play nice over a home network seems like something that should be trivially easy by now; incompatibilities like that feel like a relic from the 90s.

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Apple iMac Hands On

 

The new iMac, built with the unibody technique, comes in two sizes, with 21.5- and 27-inch screens. It’s got the same edge-to-edge glass of the MacBook Pro and will have Core 2 Duo and new Core i5/i7 quad-core options.

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The Future of Mice (If There Is One)

 

While touring Microsoft’s Hardware division, I saw some concept mice that renewed my faith in the quintessential desktop accessory, ones that had capacitive touch surfaces and cameras that enabled an array of precision multitouch gesture. Take a look: The name of the game is multitouch.

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Leaked Courier Video Shows How We’ll Actually Use It

 

Microsoft’s Courier booklet was surprising, mostly because it was so far outside of what everybody now expects from a tablet. This internal video shows how Microsoft thinks we’ll use Courier.

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ArcAttack: Lightning-Proof Musicians Share Their Tesla Coil Secrets

 

When Nikola Tesla invented his coil in 1891, he probably never imagined the ominous structures taking the place of the violin or French horn. But with time, anything’s possible.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T400s with Multitouch Review: Finger Flicking Fun

 

The Lenovo ThinkPad T400s looks like your boring tray-table business notebook. But what the flight attendant doesn’t know is that the Windows 7 14.1-inch capacitive touchscreen laptop is the first capable of four finger multitouch and it’s fingertastic! Four Freakin Fingers Up until now most notebooks with multitouch have pretty much blown (including the Dell XT2 and the HP Tx2).

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board

 

Apple’s just gone public with an announcement that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down from the Apple board of directors to avoid, ahem , “conflicts of interest.” To be fair, things must have been getting pretty awkward over there. That’s not to say that Schmidt left over a tussle in the App Store, or even the FCC’s recent investigation into Apple’s handling of Google Voice apps, but these little shitstorms could’ve been a reminder that, as much as Apple and Google have worked together over the years, they are competitors in all kinds of markets, from online services to cellphones to browsers to, soon, OSes.

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