Put it this way:
“Baby Shaker” challenges users to see how long they can withstand the cries of a baby before they shake it to death.
The app's developer now says "Yes, the Baby Shaker iPhone app was a bad idea."
Apple has remained immune from the fearsome digital media meme, for reasons worth exploring (the cult? lack of games? Steve Jobs' demonic marketing?), but perhaps this story will enter into the broader field of creepy mobile devices.
Criticism of Apple has arisen, aimed in part at the walled-garden promise of the Apps Store. Consumerist:
Seriously, Apple rejects a jiggling boobs app for being "obscene" but lets an "abuse a baby to death" app through?
Click here if you want to see a video clip of Baby Shaker in action. I can't bear to embed it.
(image via Boston Herald)
Thanks for not embedding this. The very idea nauseates me. The quote from Consumerist is classic and deeply disturbing on multiple levels.
Wow.
Posted by: Gardner | April 26, 2009 at 09:35
You are a very sick man :)
Posted by: Jim | April 27, 2009 at 00:59
It's a rough, dark little story, gents.
I wonder if more publicity would have descended, had this not been under the Apple cloak.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | May 01, 2009 at 13:42
This is creepy! How can they think of killing a baby? Whoever thought of such horrible idea could have not experienced love and care in their childhood. =(
Posted by: headbands | May 15, 2009 at 08:35
The creator of this little app has a very sick mind.
Posted by: Ajlouny | May 18, 2009 at 22:43
This app better have been removed by now.
Posted by: Long Island Personal Injury Attorney | February 25, 2010 at 10:55
Whoever created this app is not a normal human being, it can only be someone very mentally disturbed and how could the Apple App Store even think of approving such a heinous app even if it was for once? but thanks for deleting it.
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Posted by: Carlton Berlacher | January 15, 2011 at 10:45
horrible.
Posted by: kara | February 18, 2011 at 15:04
Let's talk about something genuine...This is all about ill-manners.
Posted by: injury lawyer nyc | September 08, 2011 at 08:27