Instead, Vine was allowed to quickly push out updates that made it difficult for users to find porn on the service.īut Apple hasn't been so lenient with other apps. Vaughn and Image Comics for any confusion this may have caused.Īpple has a strict anti-porn policy in its App Store, but has a record of being consistently inconsistent in the way it enforces its rules.Įarlier this year, a lot of sexually graphic content appeared on Twitter's new video-sharing app Vine, but Apple didn't pull the app. You’ll be glad to know that Saga #12 will be available on our App Store app soon. Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12.Īfter hearing from Apple this morning, we can say that our interpretation of its policies was mistaken. We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance.
Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today. This is simply not true, and we’d like to clarify.Īs a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. In the last 24 hours there has been a lot of chatter about Apple banning Saga #12 from our Comics App on the Apple App Store due to depictions of gay sex. ComiXology said Apple did not actively ban the issue. ComiXology later came out with a statement that said it decided not to publish the issue because it thought Apple would ban it. He's responsible for some awesome graphic novels like "Y: The Last Man" and several titles in the Marvel universe.īut there's some mixed messaging here. Vaughn is a very popular comic book writer, and he's well respected in the industry.