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Flatulence king iFart blocked from iPad App Store

No high definition brown mosquitoes for you

Flatulence king iFart blocked from iPad App Store
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Popular iPhone soundboard iFart might let you choose between a Burrito Maximo and a Bombardier, perform sneak raspberries, alert you to thieves, let you record your own noises, hook you up with a flatulence obsessed social network and give you access to famous whiffs through an online store, but it's not enough for Apple.

A high definition version of InfoMedia's farting soundboard was rejected from hitting the iPad because it contained "minimal user functionality". It's the same arbitrary ruling that keeps out such gimmicky apps as DuckPhone (which would have made your iPhone quack), wi-fi scanners and flashlights.

To any two-bit farting application that wants to make your iPad spit out naughty sounds, the rejection wouldn't be too surprising. But iFart is the Rolls Royce of flatulence, the Apple iPad of breaking wind.

It's been on The Today Show, The Daily show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Real Time with Bill Maher and Robin Williams tweeted about it. It racks up a whole lot of cash for both InfoModia and Apple, and has thousands of customer reviews.

But it shows the dedication Apple has for keeping crap off the App Store, even if it does sometimes cross into censorship. It's its store and it can sell what it wants, but for the hard working App makers to be hit with a rejection letter, it's the kind of action that probably stinks like a Brown Mosquito.

Mark Brown
Mark Brown
Mark Brown is editor at large of Pocket Gamer