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Mags Blast iPad's No-Nipples Policy

'Today the nipple, tomorrow editorial content'

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted May 11, 2010 3:42 AM CDT | Updated May 11, 2010 6:30 AM CDT

(Newser) – Magazine publishers are complaining that they may as well be working in Iran under Apple demands that content be cleaned up and nipples vanish before editions will be allowed on iPad apps, reports ShinyShiny. It's ironic because the iPad is being touted as the future... Read full story »

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