Appletell reviews Yoga4Dudes: Fully Loaded for iPhone, iPod touch

Category: Lifestyle
Developer: Stuff4Dudes
Requirements: iPhone 3.0 software
Compatibility: iPhone and iPod touch
File Size: 203MB
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Price: $1.99
Age Rating: 17+ (frequent/intense sexual content or nudity, and frequent/intense mature/suggestive themes)

“Hot chicks. Fake workouts.” Says it all, really; Yoga4Dudes: Fully Loaded isn’t so much an app as a collection of videos of attractive women doing Yoga poses in tight, revealing clothing. Taken from the video/show of the same name, Yoga4Dudes gives you 30 minutes of video, extras, and outtakes.

The interface is simple enough, you choose a video to watch, and it plays directly from your hard drive, not streamed (which accounts for the app’s 202MB size). There are also model bios, wallpapers, and links to their websites. Beyond the attractiveness of the women (who are very attractive), the videos are professionally produced and well lit with good production values. If you want to get a sample of the videos, there’s a “starter” version of Yoga4Dudes available as a free download. It’s the same size as the full version; you unlock all the videos with an in-app purchase.

Watching it reminded me of the old Hill’s Angels routines on The Benny Hill Show; the production has a sense of humor about itself, making it strangely lighthearted, almost a throwback to a simpler time when the raunchiest thing on television was a show that regularly featured women in stockings and old men getting repeatedly slapped on the head.

In fact, it is so relatively tame in today’s world the most surprising thing about the app is that it rated 17+ for frequent/intense sexual content or nudity, and frequent/intense mature/suggestive themes. Okay, fine, whatever, protect the children from women in bikinis, Apple. But if the Stuff4Dudes people are believed, Apple made them remove two videos from the app to be released at all. What do they feature? A man getting an erection. So, according to Apple:

1. It’s okay to sell an app featureing women in skimply clothing while the camera lingers over their bodies so men can look at them.
2. It’s not okay to show a man having a natural physical response to this: one which the application is designed to produce and which Apple has a classification for.

Honestly, I think it’s time for Apple to come clean: your application approval process was written by Mr. Roper, wasn’t it? Actually that would be pretty awesome, if true, and I would totally forgive Apple for it’s inane morality clauses if I knew they were written by the ghost of a Normal Fell character, standing outside the application testing room, getting into a wacky misunderstanding every week. Hell, it makes as much sense as anything.

But I digress. Yoga4Dudes isn’t a particularly groundbreaking application: it’s just a wrapper for several short videos. But for two bucks you get thirty minutes of high quality video.

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