After wildly diverging reviews that were somehow nearly uniform in criticizing the design and execution of the Good2Go sexual-consent app, software maker Sandton Technologies plans to relaunch the app solely as an “educational tool,” Slate‘s Amanda Hess says.
The next version, which President Lee Ann Allman said Tuesday would be resubmitted to the Apple and Google app stores in the spring, will have “no registration screens [and] no data captured by the app” – in other words, no information that could be subpoenaed by prosecutors or campus officials, Hess said after talking to Allman.
Apple yanked the app from the iTunes store after concluding it violated developer terms that ban apps with “excessively objectionable or crude content,” and Sandton decided to take down the app from Google Play as well:
Good2Go creator Lee Ann Allman told me that while Apple didn’t provide many details about its decision to remove the app, “they did say it was not deemed to be crude.” So: objectionable.
Reason‘s Robby Soave, an early booster of Good2Go, also spoke with Allman about the app’s early demise:
Apple “suggested that we retool and try to re-submit under the education category,” Allman told Reason. …
At a minimum, Good2Go will no longer store any information on the people who use it. This will render it less useful in the field, but Allman thinks colleges might be able to do something with it for educational purposes.
The College Fix had been scheduled for a briefing with Allman on Tuesday morning to talk about yanking the app, but the company canceled it, saying The College Fix violated a news embargo by publishing Sandton’s announcement of the app’s shutter before it was authorized to do so.
We haven’t identified any hiccups in our publishing system that would lead a scheduled post to publish early, and our own system shows it published at 9 a.m. Eastern, the authorized release time.
The College Fix remains in communication with Sandton and hopes to get more information about its plans for Good2Go and why the app’s first version was so poorly received, at least in the media.
Read the full Slate story here, and Reason story here.
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