Hi iPhone lovers,

Today I'm going to talk about an app that was rejected for being too violent.  The App is called "Augmented - Wanted Dead or Alive".  It's a simple first person shooter that uses the camera to shoot real-life objects/persons.  Well it was going to shoot both objects and people but it was deemed to violent.

Here's a screenshot from my original promotional material.  Now it's obvious that you can't actually shoot anyone with your iPhone.  However apple wasn't happy with the fact that you could aim it at someone and pretend to shoot them.  Perhaps they thought it might encourage people doing the real thing, but how can it really be any worse than a lot of other games out there with more graphic violence.

I would have thought that lax gun laws in the USA and channels like FOX News pumping fear and hatred into millions of homes would have had a bit more of an impact on a shootout than a harmless little iPhone App.  But maybe that's just me.

Anyway the App was eventually released without the option to shoot people.  Well you can still shoot people but there's no blood animation.  Just glass smashing, metal holes and splintering wood.  Not quite the app I was hoping to make but you gotta play by the rules I guess.

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