Latino44
07-13-2009, 10:52 PM
Apple: iPhone app store is a porn-free zone
Want to gaze at topless babes on your iPhone? Well, you'll have to look somewhere other than the App Store—or at least, that's Apple's policy.
An Apple spokesman told CNN's SciTechBlog (via Fortune's Apple 2.0) that iPhone porn apps—such as "Hottest Girls," which grabbed headlines yesterday after adding topless photos to its collection of cheesecake photos—are a definite turn-off for Cupertino.
"Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography," Apple's Tom Neumayr said, according to CNN.
"Hottest Girls" was already an approved iPhone app prior to yesterday's flap, but it only served up relatively tame pin-ups before Thursday.
The "17+"-rated app mysteriously disappeared later in the day, but the developer initially denied that Apple had pulled it, explaining that it was merely "sold out."
Well, not quite, said Apple's spokesman (via CNN), who dinged the "Hottest Girls" developer for adding "inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed ... this was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program."
Of course, there are still plenty of risqué iPhone apps in the App Store if you know where to look, so I'm betting that Apple's no-porn policy will be something of a cat-and-mouse game.
In any case, check out this post for instructions on how to enable parental controls on the iPhone.
Meanwhile, what do you think: Should adult content be allowed in the App Store? Or should Apple keep it clean?
I can clearly see a lot of users rushing to this now that their porn channels on DN are gone :lol:
Want to gaze at topless babes on your iPhone? Well, you'll have to look somewhere other than the App Store—or at least, that's Apple's policy.
An Apple spokesman told CNN's SciTechBlog (via Fortune's Apple 2.0) that iPhone porn apps—such as "Hottest Girls," which grabbed headlines yesterday after adding topless photos to its collection of cheesecake photos—are a definite turn-off for Cupertino.
"Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography," Apple's Tom Neumayr said, according to CNN.
"Hottest Girls" was already an approved iPhone app prior to yesterday's flap, but it only served up relatively tame pin-ups before Thursday.
The "17+"-rated app mysteriously disappeared later in the day, but the developer initially denied that Apple had pulled it, explaining that it was merely "sold out."
Well, not quite, said Apple's spokesman (via CNN), who dinged the "Hottest Girls" developer for adding "inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed ... this was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program."
Of course, there are still plenty of risqué iPhone apps in the App Store if you know where to look, so I'm betting that Apple's no-porn policy will be something of a cat-and-mouse game.
In any case, check out this post for instructions on how to enable parental controls on the iPhone.
Meanwhile, what do you think: Should adult content be allowed in the App Store? Or should Apple keep it clean?
I can clearly see a lot of users rushing to this now that their porn channels on DN are gone :lol: