Apple Approves Baby Shaker iPhone Application for iTunes Store

Apple approves Baby Shaker app in the iTunes store, causes outrage.

Apple have approved a smartphone application for your iPhone called Baby Shaker, the object of the iPhone game application is to stop the incessant crying of a fake infant by violently shaking the iPhone.

Apple apparently approved the Baby Shaker App on Monday and is selling for .99 cents US per purchase.

The Apple iPhone app game is won when two red "X" appear over the infant eyes, it was reported.

"See how long you can endure his or her adorable cries before you just have to find a way to quiet the baby down!" reads the marketing pitch for the Baby Shaker application.

The Baby Shaker application was bought to the attention of tech media after the mother of a child who was shaken to the point of serious injury by its father cried fowl after reading about the Apple iPhone app on a smarphone review web site.

"As a mother of a child who was violently shaken at 7 weeks old, causing a severe brain injury, and the founder of a national organization for Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention (as well as the communications director for a national organization helping children with brain injuries), I don't have to tell you how much this (Apple iPhone application) horrifies me!!!" she wrote in an e-mail, CNET reported.

The approval of the Baby Shaker app by Apple has raised questions about Apple Inc.'s policies about what applications are allowed to be sold by software makers in the iTunes store.

Via: CNET