I downloaded updates to a few of the apps on my iPod this morning. A note-taker, web browser, ebook reader, audiobook player... shakespeare... what else? Nothing that interesting really, my iPod could be lent to the nearest nun without a a qualm. So I was a bit taken aback with the dialogue box insisting I verify my age before iTunes would consent to the process. I scanned the list of apps again. "What," I thought, "could possibly be considered unfit for a child old enough to hold this device in its wee hands without sticking it in its very damp mouth?"
Turns out to have been the web browser, iCab Mobile. Rated 17+, for, apparently, carrying the sins of the internet within it. And yet, right there on the iPod, included since day 1, is Safari. Even if I wanted to, I can't erase Safari.
Do the AppStore censors think Safari accesses a different internet? Some sort of fluffy bunny sparkly unicorn internet?
listening without thinking to Agnus Dei from the album "Gregorian Chant" by Choir Of King's College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury
