Yesterday Apple abruptly removed the mega-popular 500px from the iTunes App store today citing the fact that users can search for photos that feature nudity.
I caught up with 500px CEO and co-founder Oleg Gutsol for a comment:
“Apple’s problem with the app is essentially that it was too easy to find nude photos by using the search function of the app. That functionality has been there since the beginning of our development of the app. This functionality previously has been something you had to explicitly enable “show nude content” on you account online. But that was not strict enough for Apple. They voiced concern earlier – so we created the opt in feature – but then Monday night things changed. We’re working with them on it and I’m it will be fixed soon. The result will be that no nude content will be searchable on the iOS platform. Android apps will stay the same. Google has not expressed concerns.” – Oleg Gutsol
The 500px app has amassed nearly 1 million downloads over the past 16 months and 80M page views per day.
Ironically, Oleg was on an important episode of chasejarvisLIVE last year: The Evolution of Your Creative Rights with the ASMP and Larry Lessig. We’re sending Oleg and his team the best of luck. Sounds like they have it under control.
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I’m sorry, but this kind of thing has been pissing me off for a while now. I’m a moderately successful photographer, and I specialize in nudes. Try buying advertising anywhere (even from google) if you show the human body. Finding out that now you can’t even SEARCH for nudes on an iOS product for one of the best sources for inspiration and ideas out there? That just grinds my gears. The fact that I’m now closed off from using 500px (which I hadn’t used previously, but had considered) to reach new people using iOS is a slap in my face.
Love the 500px app! Glad its already on my phone!
How about the other apps that search 500px.com. Dont’t they find nude stuff?
War images and violent movies are ok but nudes not.
In short I prefer nudes to nukes.