Apple Censors ‘Barely Legal Teen’ From iCloud Emails, Attachments

Apple’s iCloud has seen better days as it’s still experiencing issues from its early-morning outage, and now we’re hearing reports of iCloud emails and attachments being censored.

According to Macworld, Apple’s iCloud email service has been caught deleting emails that contain the phrase “barely legal teen.” Two test emails were sent using personal iCloud accounts, the first one having the worlds “He’s a barely legal teenage driver” while the second email changed the order to a “barely a legal teenage driver.” The second email was delivered without any problems, but the first email that used the “barely legal teen” phrase is yet to be delivered.

Attachments are also met with the same undelivered fate as a screenplay PDF attachment had the words “barely legal teen” in it. Once the phrase was changed, the email was sent without any problems.

The phrase “barely legal teen” is often used to describe a pornography genre, but having it completely censored from being used within iCloud’s email service is a little extreme. We can think of a handful of legitimate reasons the phrase could be used in an email, although we know there are millions of other reasons why it could be used in the dirty sense. Regardless, if Apple wants us to trust their iCloud email service, they need to let us write whatever we want rather then enforce censoring

 

Microsoft Promises Windows Phone 8 Devices Will Make Next OS Upgrade Cut

 It is a clear (albeit sad) fact that smartphones which run on Windows Phone 7.x at this point in time, will not be getting an upgrade to boost the operating system to the far more current (and cooler) Windows Phone 8. You know what they say, what goes around comes around, but the karma police are not going to come knocking on Windows Phone 8’s door anytime soon as Microsoft has promised that devices which run on Windows Phone 8 right out of the box will be able to be upgraded to the next version of the operating system, whatever that is, and whenever that would be.

This eligibility for future upgrades will definitely be good news, although it remains to be seen whether the next version of the Android operating system will be known as Windows Phone 9 or not remains to be seen. It does lead one to wonder though, most of us do make an upgrade to our mobile devices yearly, or once every two years when our current contract is up. Would we still keep Windows Phone 8 phones by the time new handsets roll out with Windows Phone 9 in tow?