A little about the iPhone app
Me So Holy allows users to put their faces within a religious figure, add a message and send
via email or upload directly to facebook. Great for friends & family. Everyone is welcome!
1) Choose a religious figure.
2) Take a picture, or choose one from your photo gallery.
3) Fit face within & add text.
4) Save, email or upload to facebook!
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OUR OTHER APP, ANIMALIZER:
Check out our other iphone app here, Animalizer.
Here’s a couple witty comments-
“I had an app called “Me So Limby” where you could use the camera to snap a mugshot and cropped the photo into Rush Limbaugh’s face. Apple rejected the app saying Rush’s head size exceeded the maximum resolution of the iPhone display.”
“I bet it would pass if they add a fart function”
Manolith wrote,
“While we can see where people might be offended by the lighthearted treatment of holy figures, we also know that the App Store once sold an app called Babyshaker, and at this moment, the #9 most popular app is called Pee Monkey Toilet Trainer. What’s more, jokes about God’s only begotten son are fucking hilarious and fit for the iPhone’s target demographic, as Family Guy and South Park have shown us. So what now, Cupertino? If we can’t have faith in the JesusPhone, what are we supposed to have faith in? Jesus? Forget it; that guy’s not half as handsome as I am.”
We agree with Pimp My Wry’s point. Just wanted to note, that there are many religions we included in our app, not just Christians.
“What gives Apple? You have respect for Christians but not for women? You know it’s bad to market a product that makes fun of Shaken Baby Syndrome, but you think it’s great to sell another, iGirl, that allows users to shake their iPhone to see their iGirl stumble?
Once again, iPutOff.”
iPhone Saviour says,
“For Jobs sake Apple! What’s the problem? Should we expect “Me So Holy” to make an appearance as an Android app long before it ever disgraces the iPhone? That’s one question that begs the answer, “What Would Google Do?” It’s too early to tell, but the bigger question still remains. What will Apple do?
Hello! Earth to Jesus Phone… we have a problem!”
This blog asks why Me So Holy wasn’t allowed when Pocket Gods was.
Here’s a quote from a blog called “Today in Religion”.
“Apple’s management looks like a bunch of old geezers. And that’s not good for a cutting edge tech company appealing to a younger demographic”
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iPhone apps have become a veritable phenomenon, with the Apple store having recently sold its 1 billionth app. But behind the scenes of this major cultural trend, a battle of values seems to being playing out over what users can or cannot view on their own screens.
After releasing Animalizer, we decided to release this app, Me So Holy. However today we received a rejection letter from Apple.
According to Apple, “Me So Holy” contains objectionable content and is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states:
“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”
You may be familiar with recent snafus over the baby shaker app and the rejection of the Nine Inch Nails apps. Our question is, is religion really to be placed in the same category as these violent apps? Sex, urine and defecation don’t seem to be off-limits, yet a totally non-violent, religion-based app is.
We feel that Apple is being too sensitive to its perceived user group and are disappointed that this otherwise creative, freethinking company would reject such a positive and fun application. The message to developers is that they should think inside the box, rather than outside it.
