Jobs sez:
"... we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone."
Also: “You know, there’s a porn store for Android,” Jobs said. “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.”
I wonder why. Just for one thing, the iPhone and pad both have a web browser. And I've heard rumors that there are whole web sites specializing in porn on the web!
I don't think it's about protecting the kids, for the kids can get porn a million places. I think it's firstly an emotional thing, and secondly (like Disney), about protecting a squeaky-clean image for Apple. I think it's a little silly. Nobody will blame Apple if somebody goes to a porn site on an iPad, and nobody would blame them if somebody sold a porn app which works on the pad.
Steve said:
The difference is that Apple approves all the apps available in the App Store, and approving a pr0n app might damage their "squeaky clean" image.Eolake said:
They don't have to do that, they could just allow third-party apps and app stores.
I hear that on the Android there's a setting you can dig up and tick, which will allow you to install apps which are not approved officially. Not many people do it, and they know what they do. So the brand is clearly not to blame if you get porn or the performance of the device is impacted. Perfect solution.
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By the way, my interest in this is more intellectual than personal. OK, it might be fun to have a Domai app on the pad, but I really don't have any great ideas for what it might be, and it's quite unlikely to by all that successful, so I don't care all that much.
Rather, I'm always interested where there are very strong societal rules without logic. For example, in some companies (more so in the past) you must wear a suit and tie. And if you consider it, a tie does nothing, it does not even hold the shirt collar shut, there are buttons for that. But to some people, it's hugely important, it's non-negotiably important. And I find that interesting: how do such arbitrary beliefs become so strong?
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The difference is that Apple approves all the apps available in the App Store, and approving a pr0n app might damage their "squeaky clean" image.
They don't have to do that, they could just allow third-party apps and app stores.
I hear that on the Android there's a setting you can dig up which allows you to install apps which are not approved officially. Not many people do it, and they know what they do. So the brand is clearly not to blame if you get porn or the performance of the device is impacted. Perfect solution.
I wonder why.
Hypocrisy.
I doubt that, actually.
"and secondly (like Disney), about protecting a squeaky-clean image for Apple."
"Here, my child, taste my squeaky-clean transgenic apple, um, I mean apricot!
- Gee, ma'am, are you sure it won't shock me into a Rohypnol-like coma?"
In my last internship, during the first-day instrucions talk, we were told the exact same thing about ties. I wore one every single day. (And not always the same one, either!) Do you have any idea how delicate it is, to keep your ties pristine as an intern in a hospital?
My colleagues were a lot less dedicated, to varying degrees. Most of the DOCTORS didn't even bother following that "paramount code".
The result? I made them look bad by comparison, so they fired me after 6 months. And only me.
Last time I ever consent to social conformism! :-P
I can pull up asstr.org (alt.sex.stories text repository) on my iPod. But I guess they just want to keep a certain clean image... Apple seems to be all about image.
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