Rotten Apple: Company Pulls Baby Shaking Application for IPhone

As an IPhone and a longtime Apple user (I got the first Apple and never have used anything other than Apple and Mac computers since), I am positively disgusted by the decision of someone at Apple to feature an application where people can have fun shaking a baby to stop it from crying. After international outcry, the company has withdrawn the product.

“Baby Shaker,” a simple app from Sikalosoft, was first offered for 99 cents. It shows crying babies and a stop watch. To stop the crying, you shake the iPhone hard and then little Xs appear on the eyes of the baby, which appears dead. Baby shaking is as funny as wife beating. Babies are injured every year due to such abuse and people have been routinely criminally charged with such abuse.

“Baby Shaker” is the brain child of a company called Sikalosoft.

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