[l3iodeez]

the pornographer and the dirty old man, there is a third party to the transaction.





Umm.....


The model?

[l3iodeez]

"Apple's House - Apple's Rule
My kids don't tell me how to rule my roost either"



So we are Apple's children and Steve Jobs is our benevolent and all knowing father who keeps those nasty nudie pics away from us?

Kinda Orwellian isn't it?

[TechieXP]

I sure am glad that Apple in not the government.

I can't tell.

[mdg1019]

Welkom said:

Apple doesn't owe anyone an apology for refusing to enable porn distribution. Porn is disgusting, dehumanizing, and debasing.

I think Apple owes iPhone owners an apology. This program sounds like a piece of trash, BUT I'm sick and tired of Apple's censorship. If they want to censor the app store, that's fine. It's their company and their public image. However, iPhone owners should be able to jailbreak all iPhones if they so choose. This is the only way iPhone owners will ever have an alternative to the app store. Instead, Apple is working hard to get jailbreaking considered copyright infringement. How lame is that?

The bottom line is that I paid for my iPhone. Apple didn't give it to me. They shouldn't be able to tell me or any other iPhone owner what software we can or can't run on our phones.

The content of the program in question is not the real issue here. Apple's censorship is the real issue and it's time it stops or they should give us an alternative for obtaining iPhone software.

[JakeB]

Yes, I agree, Apple does owe the banned 'Hottest Girls' app an apology.

After all, they FORCED the developer to write the program for the most successful mobile app distribution business in the world.

The developer also had NO KNOWLEDGE that Apple reserves the write to reject apps as they see fit, since sites like PC World never mention such information, nor does Apple make this clear to developers in advance. The outside world believes ANY app can be sold through iTunes.

Further, to use that wonderful 'my house' analogy, the iTunes Store is Apple's house, and therefore just as a guest you don't like can move in and stay as long as he/she likes at YOUR house, so too a software developer should be able to write an app and have it distributed by Apple, regardless of content.

Finally, Apple already has a reputation for shoddy software, poorly designed hardware and a public image that no company would want. Therefore they have nothing to lose by associating themselves with a 'soft-core' app to make a few bucks.

And doubly finally, the iPhone/iPod Touch completely shuts out its adult users, since it's ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to use Safari to go to pornographic websites, not does it allow, through advanced visual scanning malware, the loading of previously-ripped pornographic movies onto the device. Last time I tried such a manoeuvre the screen started flashing red, and a sermon by John Winthrop began playing.

So, where's that apology, Apple. We here at PC World are waiting.

[Boomshadow]

I think Apple needs more consistency in its approval process for the App Store. One day some app is perfectly okay; the next, it's not. The next, it may be okay again. That's no way to run any kind of approval system. Regardless of whether I approve of porn (I do), liability issues may limit its applications in the App Store. That's Apple's choice--if only they would stick with it one way or the other. It's not like Safari can't find me whatever I want, anyway.

[oldfellow]

My sister-in-law reckoned The Benny Hill show (remember him, well it was a couple of decades ago)was pornographic .

By today's standards he certainly is not.

[Grr8008]

No. It is Porn. Forget it.

[TechieXP]

LOL

I remember Benny Hill. That was so funny. beck then a man squeezing a butt or breat was considered to porographics...that appz on iStore is just 'B'-rated to me....its just showing breasts and butt. That isn't porm...that is simply teh same thing I see at the beach. Wearing a string across your nipples or simply covering the pubic areas is not wearing clothes...its live B-rated porn. Real porn shows full action...The iPhone is alreayd getting hot...imagine what a real porn app would do.