Isn’t it ironic? The director of Apple’s app store (and the enforcer of such draconian policies as the “no-porn policy”) has a side job: he sells fart apps on the app store. Wired’s Gadget Blog ...

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Apple has certainly relaxed its policy on iPhone apps targeting schoolboy humour, judging by the high number of fart apps appearing on the App Store. VentureBeat has a piece counting 14 new fart apps ...

Apple recently told iPhone developers that “We don’t need any more fart apps” in its iOS guidelines. However, that doesn’t mean every bumwind application is being rejected. It seems that apps that go ...

Shoemaker's "iWiz" (left) and "Animal Farts" (right) App Store applications Wired has discovered that Phillip Shoemaker, Apple's Director of Applications Technology for the App Store, is a former App ...

It just farts. According to Wired, Phillip Shoemaker — the director of applications technology at Apple, and the honcho responsible for maintaining a puritanical standard of quality in the App Store ...

Apple is pitching the Apple Watch as a time-saver, a fitness companion and a stylish fashion accessory. But it could also be a pretty great office prank tool, if the makers of the “Fart Watch” app had ...

Apple has long been an icon for quality products, but its overflowing iOS App Store is a crapshoot: Nuggets of quality are buried in a vast, steaming heap of inanity. In fact, the man who oversees the ...

Phillip Shoemaker is Apple’s director of applications technology. He’s the man in charge of Apple’s capricious, often-contested App Store approval process. He also has a side business selling fart and ...