Minutes after telling you about Funny Shoppers - an iPhone application that showcases the trashiest of Walmart’s clientele - Apple deleted it from their store. It wasn’t a surprise. This is the story of Apple’s seemingly schizophrenic approval and censoring process.
…Minutes after telling you about Funny Shoppers an iPhone application that showcases the trashiest of Walmart’s clientele Apple deleted it from their store. It wasn’t a surprise. This is the story of Apple’s seemingly schizophrenic approval and censoring process.
We talked with Mike McNasby, who runs Alkali Media, the small development company that created Funny Shoppers for People of Walmart. The latter is a popular website dedicated to capture some of the human horrors roaming the aisles of that hell chain on earth.
According to Mike, the app was released last week after a review and approval process that started on January 2010.
There was not much to review. Funny Shoppers is a pretty simple iPhone app. On one side, you could browse through the infinite gallery of humans, worm-like creatures, and other invertebrates found in Walmart. On the other, it was like a depressing version of Ghostbusters: You could upload the souls of any strange characters you may capture, using the iPhone’s camera.When it was…
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