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Chatroulette Style App for iPhone 4, iChatr, Pulled from iTunes App Store

By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 8:33 AM

Remember that iPhone 4 app that took advantage of the front-facing camera for Chatroulette-style video chats? The app was called iChatr and it allowed you to connect with random strangers to chat with each other face-to-face. Swiping across the screen would take you to another person once you got bored with whomever you were currently talking to. I’m sure it provided hours of entertainment, including talks about how great the iPhone 4 is, how much any one person could love Apple, and the occasional dong here and there.

Thanks to those dongs, Apple finally decided to pull the app from the iTunes app store. Is anyone really surprised? Apple’s reasoning is that too many people were exposing themselves on the app. Duh! It doesn’t take a Mac Genius to figure out that people were going to do that just as they had been on Chatroulette. The real surprise here is that iChatr was even approved in the first place.

Hope you all enjoyed it while it lasted, or are now relieved that it’s finally gone from the app store. Forever.

[Via: Gizmodo]

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Marc Flores

Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.

  • Optikmike

    Yet another app shot down by Big Brother, aka Apple…

  • Team MiKandi

    We can't say that we were surprised by this either, unfortunately. Apple's made it clear that they don't treat their users like adults and aren't okay with "profane" content (unless, of course, you're creating it using their own technology, in which case it appears to be fine…). It's a pretty well established fact that ChatRoulette is full of risque user behavior and things that might be more appropriate for a solely adult audience. As the only app store for adults, we at MiKandi are watching this with interest and hope that the iChatr app can be reconstituted in some form for the Android device – we'd love to have it in our store (www.mikandi.com) and are sure that our users will find it as interesting as the millions of web users who have.

    Team MiKandi: http://www.mikandi.com