If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that an iPhone dictionary app entitled Ninjawords Dictionary was approved for the App Store only after some of suggestive words were erased. Well, it seems that Apple’s Phil Schiller has taken time to comment on the accusation.

According to Mr. Schiller, the fact that Ninjawords Dictionary used Wicktionary as a source for its definitions means that more vulgar terms were used than a traditional dictionary. Upon seeing this, App Store reviewers told the developers to wait until parental controls were in place to submit the app so it could be given a 17+ rating instead of censorship. The developers of said app then decided to censor some words and resubmit it so in an attempt to get to market faster but low and behold there were still suggestive words found in the dictionary which still earned it a 17+ rating.

So in conclusion, it was the developer’s choice to censor the words instead of pressure from Apple which, according to Schiller, there was none.

Read (DaringFireball)

Tags: App Store, Apple, Cell Phones, censorship, dictionary, iPhone, Mobile News, Mobile Software, ninjawords, phil schiller