Anger at Baby Shaker game (Paging Daily Mail)

Parents whose children died or were permanently injured due to their babies being shaken have protested outside an Apple store about an application called Baby Shaker.

Apple has apologised for the "deeply offensive" iPhone application , which made a game of quietening crying babies by shaking them.

Patrick Donohue and Jennipher Dickens are both parents of baby shake victims; they explained why they are so angry about the game outside an Apple store in New York.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8015876.stm

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To be fair,

which made a game of quietening crying babies by shaking them.

sounds like the crappiest idea for a game ever.

I'm sick of saying 'I mean, really' when it comes to videogames, but I just can't help it.

Well this is just terrible.

Parents whose children died or were permanently injured due to their babies

I mean look at it!

Parents whose children died or were permanently injured due to their babies...

The babies' babies? What?

Patrick Donohue and Jennipher Dickens are both parents of baby shake victims

Read: Baby-killers.

Echarin wrote:
Patrick Donohue and Jennipher Dickens are both parents of baby shake victims

Read: Baby-killers.

Not funny.

Pretty terrible that someone can not only make this but get it on the App Store. Wouldn't surprise me if people start happening across more apps which have some kind of unsavoury content tucked away somewhere.

I've not seen the game at all, but surely it's supposed to be a baby rocking game as opposed to shaking?

Shadow wrote:I've not seen the game at all, but surely it's supposed to be a baby rocking game as opposed to shaking?

No. You shake the iPhone and big red X's appear over the baby's eyes when it's 'pacified'.

Hero of Canton wrote:
Shadow wrote:I've not seen the game at all, but surely it's supposed to be a baby rocking game as opposed to shaking?

No. You shake the iPhone and big red X's appear over the baby's eyes when it's 'pacified'.

I see...

This is what happens when they let anyone make games.

This is what happens when you give teenagers access to information technology.

Shadow wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:
Shadow wrote:I've not seen the game at all, but surely it's supposed to be a baby rocking game as opposed to shaking?

No. You shake the iPhone and big red X's appear over the baby's eyes when it's 'pacified'.

I see...

This is what happens when they let anyone make games.

What a load of bullshit. What are you saying, only a privileged few should be able to make games? Anyone that wants to make games should be able to. Freedom of expression and all that.

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
Shadow wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:
Shadow wrote:I've not seen the game at all, but surely it's supposed to be a baby rocking game as opposed to shaking?

No. You shake the iPhone and big red X's appear over the baby's eyes when it's 'pacified'.

I see...

This is what happens when they let anyone make games.

What a load of bullshit. What are you saying, only a privileged few should be able to make games? Anyone that wants to make games should be able to. Freedom of expression and all that.

I think it's more 'when they let anyone publish games', really. The sick strawberry float's got a right to make it, I guess, but it's not really suitable for the consumption of others, is it?

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
Shadow wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:
Shadow wrote:I've not seen the game at all, but surely it's supposed to be a baby rocking game as opposed to shaking?

No. You shake the iPhone and big red X's appear over the baby's eyes when it's 'pacified'.

I see...

This is what happens when they let anyone make games.

What a load of bullshit. What are you saying, only a privileged few should be able to make games? Anyone that wants to make games should be able to. Freedom of expression and all that.

OK, so what is a game about shaking babies to death expressing? What is this game saying other than "lol@shaken babiez, we are sooo going to hell lol"?

Could it be that this banal gooseberry fool is actually an affront to freedom of speech?

The developers had every right to make it - either as a genuine puerile joke or a cynical attempt to fleece cash from people they probably regard as morons. They have that right and Apple have the right not to distribute it because they think it's offensive and exploitative.

Everyone's a winner.

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
Shadow wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:
Shadow wrote:I've not seen the game at all, but surely it's supposed to be a baby rocking game as opposed to shaking?

No. You shake the iPhone and big red X's appear over the baby's eyes when it's 'pacified'.

I see...

This is what happens when they let anyone make games.

What a load of bullshit. What are you saying, only a privileged few should be able to make games? Anyone that wants to make games should be able to. Freedom of expression and all that.

Definitely, what this industry needs is more games dreamed up in the minds of teenage boys.

Unfortunately giving people the freedom to make whatever game they want to is always going to throw up the odd occasion where someone claims to be 'pushing the boundaries' (as opposed to being just distasteful as most everyone else would think).

Apple's fault entirely.

Other apps have been rejected completely for far less - usually reasons pertaining to them doing things which Apple want complete control over or vulgar language.

Of course this shouldn't have made it to the App store. Perhaps if they spent more time looking at the content rather than whether or not the programmers had done anything too advanced with the SDK, it wouldn't have.

I suppose it is a bit like that Columbine game that did the rounds a few years ago. I'm not sure why anyone would want to create games like this.

This game sickens me.

I do think this game is disgusting, but Apple shouldn't have allowed it on the store in the first place. That way the developers would clearly see their error.

emilythestrange wrote:That way the developers would clearly see their error.

The worrying thing is that we expect Apple to point this out to them.

Ban this sick filth!

I'm just thankful that I managed to download it before they pulled it.

OUTRAGE!

The person to blame is the one that let it through, it never should have been, obviously.

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