Published 27 April 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1716
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1716

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Apple withdraws baby shaker game after complaints

Rebecca Coombes

1 London

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Apple has withdrawn a game for its iPhone called Baby Shaker, after furious complaints from patient organisations and parents. The application, which had been on sale for less than a week, asks users to silence a crying baby by shaking it. Red crosses appear over the baby’s eyes once quiet. Patrick Donohue, who set up the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, a New York based charity that raises funds for research into paediatric brain injury, wrote to Apple’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, to complain. "As the father of a 3 year old who was shaken by her baby nurse when she was only 5 days old, causing severe brain injury, words cannot describe my reaction," he wrote.

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