Apple bans Android Magazine from App store

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NEW YORK: A magazine app from Danish company Mediaprovider has been rejected from Apple's App store because it featured exclusive content about the Android operating system, Media Watch has said.

Although Google's platform is in competition with Apple's, it stirs up accusations that Apple's censorship is too far-reaching and hypocritical. There's already an Android news app available in the App Store called Androidworld Reader, as well as various apps that have content about other operating systems. But Mediaprovider's Brian Dixen told Media Watch that his app, Android Magasinet, was rejected primarily for its Android-focused content.

"It's funny really because I don't think we would sell many magazines on Android through Apple App Store, but the question is where this is going," said Dixen, who thinks that Apple is too heavy-handed with its censorship.

Dixen has had other apps published in the App Store with no problem, he said. Both iPhone Magasinet and Gear, apps that deal with iPhone info and news about consumer electronics respectively, are both available for download.

Apple also blocks all apps that contain any kind of nudity, even those that are educational.

This isn't the only area in which Apple has been criticized for its censorship. The iPhone ignores all language that Apple has deemed foul in text messages as well.

Apple confirmed on Monday that its App Store now has more than 300,000 apps. That means that since the store's inception in 2008, more than seven billion apps have been downloaded.

Both Apple and Google helped boost smartphone sales this year. Worldwide mobile device sales are up 35 percent this quarter. The Android platform is the number two operating system with about a 37 percent share of the market. iOS comes in at number three with about 16 percent of the market.

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