UPDATE: As of 24 February, Simply Beach has also returned to the App Store. The developer confirmed to TechRadar that neither he nor his client received any communication from Apple during or about this incident. iWobble remains absent from the App Store at the time of writing.
Apple has pulled thousands of apps from its App Store after it says it received complaints about perceived adult content.
This means anything that features women (and we assume men too) in provocative swimwear and lingerie has mostly been pulled.
Philip Schiller, senior VP of worldwide product marketing, said told the NY Times that the App Store approvals team has seen "an increasing number of apps containing very objectionable content."
"It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see," he added.
Lost revenue
This move has meant that developers who previously had been making thousands of pounds a month from the App Store were now down to nearly no revenue after the change.
One of the apps removed was Wobble iBoobs, where a user could take a picture of anything, mark the relevant points on the picture and watch it jiggle.
Admittedly, the name clearly states that women's breasts were the intended target, but it did not come pre-loaded with any content and did not mandate what could be 'wobbled'.
Apple may invoke the ire of the developer community by moving the goalposts at this stage, despite it protesting that it's safeguarding minors by this action.
