{"id":10300,"date":"2014-12-12T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2014-12-13T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T14:58:13","slug":"papers-please-and-app-content-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/papers-please-and-app-content-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers, Please and App Content Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/12\/11\/papers-please\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/12\/11\/papers-please\">\n<p>This case highlights the way Apple holds games (and apps in general) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanodonnell\/status\/543130642184036352\">to a different standard than other iTunes content<\/a>. Movies, music, and books are not held to the same PG-13-ish standards that apps are. I can buy <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> from iTunes, but if I made a game that showed the exact same things that are depicted in that film, it&rsquo;d have little chance of being approved. Conversely, an R-rated movie version of Papers Please could depict this scene without a hitch when it comes to iTunes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This has never made much sense to me. Apple has a <em>more<\/em> extensive system for rating the content of apps than it does for movies. And all apps must have ratings and be reviewed by Apple, whereas some movies are not rated at all. Yet, even with age-appropriate ratings, there are some types of app content that won&rsquo;t be accepted at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dukope\/status\/543480419581038592\">Lucas Pope<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dukope\/status\/543480419581038592\"><p>Just talked to Apple. The initial rejection for porn was a misunderstanding on their part. They suggested I resubmit with the nudity option.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: This case highlights the way Apple holds games (and apps in general) to a different standard than other iTunes content. Movies, music, and books are not held to the same PG-13-ish standards that apps are. I can buy A Clockwork Orange from iTunes, but if I made a game that showed the exact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,130,31,26,1082],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-papers-please"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}