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Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #1 Posted by BruceH on 5 Oct 2009, 8:53 p.m. Remember entering a number on an old 7-segment machine and turning it upside down to reveal a word? Remember that some words were mildly rude? Well, now your children can be protected. http://www.dragthing.com/blog/?p=285

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #2 Posted by bill platt on 5 Oct 2009, 9:22 p.m., in response to message #1 by BruceH I like this subthread:) # Dries October 1, 2009 at 5:03 pm Has everyone gone barking mad? I am so tired of being nannied. # Adam October 1, 2009 at 5:11 pm I think that’s a wise decision. The App store reviewers always stand on their head, if you somehow forgot to remove the “calculator words” they would probably find out and reject your app because it contains swear words! ;-) # Peter Nordstrand October 1, 2009 at 5:43 pm Why would you do such a thing? Disgusting. I will never ever buy an app from you. # David October 1, 2009 at 5:46 pm Apparently some here are satire-impaired.

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #3 Posted by Byron Foster on 6 Oct 2009, 1:56 a.m., in response to message #1 by BruceH If you search on iTunes for a calculator called "Calc Zero" you'll find that it has a rating of: Rated 12+ for the following: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity I thought this was too funny that a calculator would be rated NC-17, so I mailed the developer about how this happened. Apparently some of his resource file names has the word boobs in them.. Apple review must have some kind of filter they perform on the submissions :)

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #4 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) on 6 Oct 2009, 8:42 a.m., in response to message #3 by Byron Foster It may have had a SIN function, a blue square key, and other subtle traces of improper content. Physical calculators were even worse, they used to have female connectors which may be near male plugs, and these obtained their power from transformers!

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #5 Posted by Walter B on 6 Oct 2009, 2:27 a.m., in response to message #1 by BruceH Crazy, simply crazy - or even mad already.

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #6 Posted by Maximilian Hohmann on 6 Oct 2009, 2:31 a.m., in response to message #5 by Walter B Good morning! Quote: Crazy, simply crazy - or even mad already. Indeed. More and more, I get convinced that I would rather live in that parallel universe, in which Russia has won the cold war and we are spared from that kind of nonsense ;-) Even if that means that I have to collect Elektronika calculators instead of HP ones! Greetings, Max

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #7 Posted by Bart (UK) on 6 Oct 2009, 5:59 a.m., in response to message #1 by BruceH From the first line: Quote: ... to protect innocent minds ... How innocent are the minds that want to make (or even understand) "those words" in the first place?

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #8 Posted by Richard Reed on 6 Oct 2009, 6:42 a.m., in response to message #1 by BruceH 'salright. I can read upside down.

Re: Profanity free iPhone calculator application Message #9 Posted by Howard Owen on 6 Oct 2009, 12:12 p.m., in response to message #1 by BruceH They say they "think they know their audience." I suppose they assume that audience will read the entire posting. :) Regards, Howard

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