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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has blasted Apple for what he describes as an inconsistent approach to obscene content. Apple rejected an updatedversion of the Nine Inch Nails iPhone app, possibly on the basis that it provided access to “The Downward Spiral”, a song with explicit lyrics. Reznor griped on Twitter that the very same song is available on the iTunes store, saying: “Thanks Apple for the clear description of the problem – as in, what do you want us to change to get past your stupid f***ing standards?” At the moment, although the iTunes store has a parental guidance function allowing parents to prevent their kids from downloading songs with naughty lyrics, there is no equivalent feature for iPhone apps. For the time being Reznor’’s development team has removed the link to the offending track.

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