

This is a surprising slip for Apple, which monitors every application and game before allowing it on to the App Store, from which around 1 billion programs have been downloaded since it was opened last year. It was withdrawn on Wednesday after a number of blogs and review sites had pointed to the distasteful - and dangerous - behaviour it was promoting.

The application, written by a company called Sikalosoft, first appeared on Apple's iPhone App Store on Monday. Shaking the motion-sensitive phone meant that the onscreen baby would get large red Xs over its eyes. See how long you can endure his or her adorable cries before you just have to find a way to quiet the baby down!"

Before Baby Shaker, there was nothing you could do about it. Babies are everywhere you don't want them to be! They're always distracting you from preparing for that big presentation at work with their incessant crying. The 99-cent game, which showed black-and-white line drawings of a baby, had the description: "On a plane, on the bus, in a theatre.
