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More Apple Fail, Teen-Aged Boy Dept. 0

Apple has banned another program from its iPhone Apps store.

This program, called Eucalyptus, goes directly to Project Gutenberg, a highly respected repository for public domain ebooks, to allow the user to download ebooks. I have, in fact, often used Project Gutenberg, downloading books by Mark Twain, R. Austin Freeman, and others.

Seems the issue is that, among it’s other umpty-ump thousands of titles, the site contains Sir Richard Burton’s (no, not that Richard Burton; the sober one) translation of the Kama Sutra.

The Guardian reports:

However, not only does Eucalyptus not actually contain the book itself – users would have to actively find it and then download it – but the same title is already accessible through a number of other popular ebook applications for the iPhone, and even through the handset’s web browser.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Kama Sutra, it is sort of a poetic Indian “how to” of sex and love. Only a teenaged boy could find it at all prurient.

Of course, a teen-aged boy can find the Hanes catalog prurient.

Is Apple hiring teen-aged Mac fanboys to run the Apps Store? Inquiring minds want to know.

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