Apple, Steve Jobs under fire for approving app that claims to cure homosexuality

[Hot Mega]

Uh-ohhh Boothy...there is a 'cure' for those wild strap-on and double-ended dildo days you enjoy with your errr..spouse (wife?:dunno.

But but hold on...the article was written by Brett Michael Dykes...:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

"Apple, Steve Jobs under fire..." :1orglaugh Too funny...there's a joke there somewhere...:flame: ...anywho...

"There's an app for that."

The catchphrase coined by Apple and their advertising gurus to sell iPhones and iPads has become so ubiquitous that it's even been parodied on Sesame Street. Still, few would have ever thought that the tech giant—which, like many other Silicon Valley concerns, boasts a progressive profile on many cultural issues, and extends domestic-partner benefits to gay and lesbian employees—would condone an app that purports to "cure" homosexuality. It would seem an even greater stretch for Apple and company founder and CEO Steve Jobs to make such an application available though its iTunes store.

Yet the app—by a ministry group called Exodus International—is right there, along the thousands of other iPhone apps available to plugged in Apple users. And this appears to be the point at which many of Apple's cultish fans—including plenty of gay activists—are drawing the line. No, they say: There's not actually an app for that.

:condom: At link...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110321/ts_yblog_thelookout/apple-steve-jobs-under-fire-for-approving-app-that-claims-to-cure-homosexuality

 

[Facetious]

Just who is this 'Steve' and exactly how many jobs are under fire?


:1orglaugh

Have you seen that guy lately? he looks like a living corpse!
I'll have to grant him amnesty on this one as I don't think that he has long to go.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

I think its funny. Offensive, perhaps... But funny.

 

[shayd]

I still don't understand why Jobs is getting the blame. Guy hasn't ever had a direct hand in approving applications.

 

[meesterperfect]

Its about time someone found a cure.

 

[busenbust]

Well, we need more vetting of apps/ That, and more skilled engineers

:yahoo:

 

[lurkingdirk]

I keep waiting for them to develop an app that will fix BlueBalls.

 

[maildude]

There's a cure for me wanting to suck dicks?????

 

[DOA82]

The app is just a picture of a crucifix on the screen and a group of religious nuts beat homosexuals with their Ipads into submission.

 

[Boothbabe]

If having hot, sweaty, mad monkey sex with my wife (and sometimes a threesome with our best girlfriend) is a disease than I don't want to be cured

 

[Zolf J. Kimbly]

If having hot, sweaty, mad monkey sex with my wife (and sometimes a threesome with our best girlfriend) is a disease than I don't want to be cured

you wouldnt happen to be filming this stuff and selling it at exhorberent prices would you?:drool1:

 

[BlueBalls]

If you don't want it, don't download it.

Yes it's offensive and those offended by it have the right to protest against it. But I for one don't really see the major issue - it's going to be downloaded by such a small minority of users that it probably isn't even going to be worth the effort this group put into creating it. I wouldn't protest against the WBC or the KKK having their own "app" to do with whatever service they're willing to offer Apple users, for example. They have just as much of a right to market their ideas to the wider community as whatever is the most popular "app" being downloaded today does. Whether or not their "apps" become popular or not is down to the interest people have in downloading them. They'll either succeed or fail on that.

For people to say this is an endorsement by Apple is moronic.

I keep waiting for them to develop an app that will fix BlueBalls.

Yeah... like that'll happen.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I still don't understand why Jobs is getting the blame. Guy hasn't ever had a direct hand in approving applications.

That's what I don't get. I'm sure this is a lot better than some of the idiotic apps out there that actually charge you a dollar to get. Not like it comes prepackaged with the product.

Steve Jobs has enough on his plate than to mess around with this crap.

I keep waiting for them to develop an app that will fix BlueBalls.

Only way to cure him is a shotgun in his mouth and let him deep throat his last shaft.

 

[Spleen]

If having hot, sweaty, mad monkey sex with my wife (and sometimes a threesome with our best girlfriend) is a disease than I don't want to be cured

Have you ever tried writing fiction professionally?

 

[Arden Adamz]

yeesh... is it bad that the FO forums are my favorite source of news? lol

 

[luis1972]

Totally crazy...

 

[Erika Red]

I keep waiting for them to develop an app that will fix BlueBalls.

They do have an App for that - its called Mobile Porn and portable lube! :nanner:

 

[Erika Red]

Okay - so I finished reading this and the links, while I think the app is in dis-taste, why blame Steve jobs for an app written by a separate party for the i-phone. I think I am missing something - next the religious nuts will blame him for allowing mobile porn to be obtained via an iphone?

I think I need an afternoon snickers and a coffee, cause I just don't understand

 

[busenbust]

this is what happens with monopolies / they keel over/ now, where's my 'Killer' App..

:yahoo:

 

[edirons22]

This is very funny :1orglaugh