Right now there are potentially 1000s of ticking time bombs. … All it will take is one 13-year-old (like the child who downloaded your 1 billionth application) who learns from his iPhone the way to quiet his 6-week-old sister is by shaking her as hard and as fast as he can and completely altering this child’s life and his family. As you can see from many of the comments about your removal of the application, there is a considerable audience who still considers the concept of shaking a baby to be funny!
AT&T provides the wireless services for the phone, not the applications. Additionally, AT&T has no involvement in what is accepted (or not) by the Apple App Store.
This is like suing an ISP because one of their subscribers sent an offensive email over their network.
I (personally) agree that this app is in bad taste and potentially dangerous (think about a 6 year old playing the "game" on daddy's phone, then trying to get baby brother to stop crying), but AT&T didn't have anything to do with it.
With all of the reports of how the App Store rejects apps, this would have been a non-issue if they would have just rejected it from the beginning.
I agree that the app should have not made it through to the app store, but I also think that people like Donohue who are putting letters out giving what if situations about a 13-year-old playing the app and really doing it are just giving more attention to the application when what we should do is just get rid of the app like apple did and then not bring so much publicity to the app. When you do this then there is more of a chance for children to hear it. Also just a side note: what 13-year-old has an iphone or ipod touch that their parents will let not only have but go and download games. Because I would like to have those parents. Also if the parents aren't teaching their kids right from wrong we have a whole other issue on our hands.
just another person wanting to bring attention to themselves and pointing the wrong fingers at the wrong people.
Really? Do you really think that teenagers will learn to murder babies from an iPhone game? You might as well put a stop to all violent videogames, movies, books and music. People know the difference between games and reality. Also, parents teach their children how to hold their siblings. This Donohue letter is just nonsense from someone who wants to jump on some bandwagon and make a name for himself.
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An Open Letter to Apple and AT&T Boards of Directors
Posted by: Patrick B. Donohue, Esq. April 27, 2009 11:09 AMRight now there are potentially 1000s of ticking time bombs. … All it will take is one 13-year-old (like the child who downloaded your 1 billionth application) who learns from his iPhone the way to quiet his 6-week-old sister is by shaking her as hard and as fast as he can and completely altering this child’s life and his family. As you can see from many of the comments about your removal of the application, there is a considerable audience who still considers the concept of shaking a baby to be funny!
This is like suing an ISP because one of their subscribers sent an offensive email over their network.
I (personally) agree that this app is in bad taste and potentially dangerous (think about a 6 year old playing the "game" on daddy's phone, then trying to get baby brother to stop crying), but AT&T didn't have anything to do with it.
With all of the reports of how the App Store rejects apps, this would have been a non-issue if they would have just rejected it from the beginning.
just another person wanting to bring attention to themselves and pointing the wrong fingers at the wrong people.