Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn

hansamurai writes "After being asked about the App Store's recent ban on 'sexy apps,' Steve Jobs responded, 'We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone. You know, there's a porn store for Android, you can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there.' Apps such as Playboy's and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition are still available on the App Store, however, as they come from 'more reputable companies.'"

Re:In other news...

[mikael_j]

For about ten minutes before customers realized that they could still get porn using Safari and that iTunes gladly lets them transfer their porn videos to the iPhone.

Sure Steve

[jDeepbeep]

As if applications are the only porn vector. Let's get rid of Safari too while we're at it.

Re:The internet is for porn

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not supposed to be posting this, but, that's actually one of the main features of IPhone OS 5.0.
Each web page will have a special xml configuration file available that the OS will download, allowing the user to be redirected to a corresponding Apple-approved app at the App Store. The user may then download the app to get the corresponding functionality of the website, but with a much better user experience, since the app is running locally, and has been blessed by Apple.

Walmart

[whisper_jeff]

For anyone who's about to bitch and moan about Apple closing their app store to questionable apps ("porn"), and I know that list is long, ask yourself if you have a problem with Walmart dictating what products can and cannot appear on their store shelves. If you are ok with Walmart having enormous control over what appears in their stores, to the point that content providers will make Walmart-friendly CDs (for example), then feel free to bitch about Apple doing exactly the same thing. At the very least you'll be consistent in your view that stores everywhere should carry everything just because it exists, regardless of whatever business plan they may have and customer base they may wish to appeal to. Otherwise, keep your complaints to yourself because every damn store on the planet does this. Walmart, which has probably the broadest selection of products, doesn't carry everything, just because it exists, so why should Apple? Just because someone wants to build it and just because some people want to buy it doesn't qualify something to appear in a company's store...

Yeah. I'm grumpy. Deal with it.

Re:I don't need

[Nerdfest]

Actually, they just rejected a reportedly extremely nice iPad application that taught kids how to program [wired.com], called "Scratch", based on Alan Kay's ideas from ages ago. It looks like a fantastic idea, but aparently violates their terms and condition, as the kids can 'create programs'. They're not really thinking of the children.

Re:In other news...

[MBGMorden]

Ripping a DVD for your own use is legal. DECRYPTING it with an unauthorized backup tool is not thanks to the DMCA, but the vast majority of porn DVD's have no copy protection, in which case the DMCA doesn't come into play.

Not to mention that there are sites that already cater to this. www.videobox.com for example even has an "iPod" option on their video downloads that downloads a MPEG4 file already optimized for placeback on an iPod, that will import straight into iTunes. Completely legal, and works fine.

Re:I don't need

[fm6]

Especially when the chief censor is this guy:

http://www.9to5mac.com/steve-jobs-hacks-phones-234556455 [9to5mac.com]

But really, this isn't about censorship. This is about branding. Because Apple doesn't sell technology any more, they sell an image. And that image doesn't have room for stroke facilitation software.

Re:I don't need

[Enderandrew]

They also censor artists who criticize Walmart.

Re:Every Time Jobs Speaks

[shutdown -p now]

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but [windowsteamblog.com]...

ENSURING HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS

In addition to designing what the Marketplace is and how it works, we’ve also focused on what users expect of the content they find and have built and operate a certification process that every application and game goes through to meet these customer expectations.

Customers reasonably expect the applications and games they find:
- install and run correctly,
- use device resources efficiently
- are not malware compromising their identity or that of their friends family and colleagues
transparently ask and inform users what personal information the application is accessing
- are legal to own and use in their country of residence, and
- are of generally good taste excluding pornography, hateful/inflammatory speech, and gratuitous violence.

So cross your fingers for Android.

Re:American pornophobia

[Rene S. Hollan]

Parents are not ALLOWED to parent their children in America. That's the State's job. (Somewhere, Mussolini is laughing.)

Two anecdotal incidents:

1. My son is wont to run off without looking or thinking if he does not get what he wants (Mom tends to give in to irrational desires, me: far less so). I stopped him from trying to run into highway traffic while he was having one of his fits because he did not want shoes. Later, his mother called police because there was a small abrasion on his stomach. (I held him around the abdomen.) I was arrested, jailed for felony assault of a minor, and eventually pled guilty to disorderly conduct -- not because I was fearful of facing the charge -- but because it was necessary that the case be closed so I could continue to parent my kids: the State had to give me a trial within 90 days of pressing charges, but they could sit on those charges for five years, keeping the case open. Besides, disorderly conduct in WA essentially is anything that might make someone assault you -- perhaps someone might think I was trying to kidnap him.

2. My daughter wanted to meet a much older person she was chatting with online. I though it a perfect chance to teach how to meet strangers, that might become friends, even as I was wary. I set ground rules: I come along, we meet in a very public restaurant for lunch, we go our separate ways, we do not disclose where we live, we make sure we are not followed after. I was wary about this person's intentions but figured a blanket veto would just encourage a secret meeting which could be far more dangerous. I drilled her on "stranger safety" before the meeting and debriefed her after. This was deemed by a mental health professional as a "poor choice" and that the veto would be better.

3. A friend of my daughters recounted how some female classmates wanted her to be "in" on their plan. They were upset at how much homework a male teach was assigning and were to accuse, en masse, that he sexually abused them, figuring their numbers would bolster the believability of the allegation.

The bottom line is that effective parenting can get one jailed these days. And, I know many parents who outright fear their kids.

Re:Any other recommendations, Steve?

[Eunuchswear]

Could you also recommend pr0n-friendly restaurants, hotels, bakeries etc?

Bakeries you say? [theeroticbakery.com]

(Jobs is right! I found this using Google.)

Re:American pornophobia

[Terminal Saint]

It's a valid fear. I know someone who asked her father about sex she was about 6 or 7. Her father, not being ashamed of the biological process, gave her a frank and straightforward explanation. Being a child, she then told some of her classmates about it and next thing you know: the parents were getting a visit from CPS.

Re:Ready Pitchforks!

[sbeckstead]

The point being that more iPhone stories means more ads being served.

There fixed that for you!

Jobs redefines "responsibility"

[IGnatius T Foobar]

Steve Jobs responded, "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone."

No you don't. You have a fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders to sell as many iPhones as possible. You are not in the morality business.

So, the Apple's iPhone Ad..

[microbee]

"Just about anything, there is an app for that" is really a lie.

Re:Also... Where is this market?

[Anonymous Coward]

Also... Where is this "porn market" for android?

MiKandi [mikandi.com]

Re:Slashdot is out of touch with reality

[Rodyland]

What are you, a stockholder or just a tool?

You seem to imply he can't be both.

Re:Walmart

[whisper_jeff]

Erm, excuse me??? Isn't the *ONLY* way to download an app onto a (non-jailbroken) iPhone via the App Store??? Or am I missing something?

Yes. You are missing something. Web apps. I'll give you two excellent examples. Google Voice (m.google.com/voice) and Bejeweled (http://www.popcap.com/games/iphone/bejeweled). So, if you want to develop an app for the iPhone, you do not need to go through Apple - you can publish as a web app.