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Apple’s Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"
- danso 14y ago> Update: most likely, the problem arises because of links: the people responsible for iTunes, put the “temporary” link type xx.xx.xx. That’s just such a site exists, and, as we have seen today, has nothing to do with the ideals of the company.Waiting for the fix. This is certainly a new hallmark of lorem-ipsum-dummy-code-type error.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThe actual site in question seems to be http://xxx.xxx/ http://xxx.xxx/ (NSFW, obviously)
- Osmium 14y agoAren't there standards for this kind of thing? When you want a placeholder domain? e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid
- pnathan 14y agohttp://subdomain.localhost http://subdomain.localhost should solve that problem...
- mistercow 14y agoexample.com also exists specifically for this purpose.
- jerf 14y agoYes, but effectively nobody has ever heard of them. I've had to train a lot of both my local QA and devs to do this properly.
- chimeracoder 14y agoYes - example.com For testing emails, don't use foo@bar.com (that's a real email address!) or anything else that you can come up with. RFC 2606 guarantees that those domains be reserved for test/placeholder use.
- ams6110 14y agomydomain.com is another "real" site that many people use in example scenarios. It's actually a domain registrar.
- jrockway 14y agoI personally use example.invalid. It's immediately obvious that it's an example and invalid :)
- drzaiusapelord 14y agoI guess example.com isn't patent encumbered enough for itunes devs?
- stephengillie 14y agoThey could try contoso.com :D
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoYou'd think they'd have the sense to use something like "example.com", which could never possibly have such content.
- jonknee 14y agoOr maybe apple.com, worst case you get some self promotion.
- eps 14y agoI used to work for a startup that used acmecorp.com in all their demos and all over the documentation. It turned out the company behind the domain name didn't really appreciate getting dozens upon dozens of "confirm your registration" emails... but they did say we weren't the only offenders.
- mhurron 14y agoIt's not a bug, it's a feature.
- danabramov 14y agoIronic that our iOS app got rejected today for “mature themes”.
- i386 14y agoWhat is your app?
- IheartApplesDix 14y agoI bet it's some kind of portal that aggregates other content that you're not directly responsible for.
- kristofferR 14y agoReddit-apps are allowed.
- bduerst 14y agoLinks only to reddit, which doesn't host mature content (just links to it).
- danabramov 14y agoWe're not aggregating other content. We let user create content on iPad and publish it on our platform. Apple was content with having us add a Report button.
- danabramov 14y agoIt's a publishing platform for iPad. We got approved after adding a Report button. We're not releasing it yet because a newer version is in the works. If you're curious, leave an email at http://stampsy.com http://stampsy.com and we'll ping you once we're in the App Store (it will be free).
- JonSkeptic 14y agopics or it didn't happen
- frozenport 14y agoThey didn't test it before deployment?!
- diziet 14y agoApple had another similar issue with itunes searches that they just recently fixed -- searches for taboo words returning a lot of results: http://blog.appstorerankings.net/blog/2012/10/28/itunes-search-results-for-taboo-words-disney-and-other-big-apps/ http://blog.appstorerankings.net/blog/2012/10/28/itunes-sear...