Comments on: Porn Still Available on the iPhone

By: Backlin

Backlin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:25:30 +0000

I’m siding with GR on this one. Asking Apple to regulate web apps is asking Apple to stretch outside of their jurisdiction. The App Store is 100% theirs, so they can do whatever they want with it, but the internet is shared. The most they can do is decide to not link to them in the web apps portion of their website.

Besides, it’s the parents’ job to watch over their kids.

By: GR

GR — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:01 +0000

I’m sorry, are you actually somehow promoting the ideas that:

- A web ‘application’ is somehow different from any other website, porn or otherwise, available through Safari? Clue, It’s not. It just has its HTML/CSS tweaked to fit the iPhone screen. It does not interact with iPhone OS at all other than being displayed as a web page in Mobile Safari.

- That Apple, or anyone else, should add the regulation of such websites to its agenda?

Really?! Funny, I didn’t hear you mention any of this in relation to desktop web browsers and the plethora of porn websites available on them. I guess you figured if you mentioned porn in an article you’d attract a lot of attention. Unfortunately you lost credibility in the process.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:24:24 +0000

Ed, I should have done a better job of reading your article. I recant my rebuke of your article.

By: Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:13:13 +0000

No i’m not criticizing Apple at all Daniel — but I am saying they may need to look into ways to closing loopholes for web applications. It’s not their fault these porn companies are doing all they can to get this stuff on the iPhone…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:29 +0000

Just because Playboy is sold at Barnes & Noble doesn’t mean that Apple will allow it at their retail store. Give Apple some credit, they understand that there are diffrent way to get access to this material, all they are doing is refusing to be distributors of adult material (porn if you must give it a name). Just because Safari is offered to browse the Internet, does not mean that Apple (or any other company that provides a browser), condone the use to view porn.

Apple tries very hard to be a family friendly brand. If that means removing some apps from their store (online or retail) to maintain this image, so be it. It is their progative to choose how they want to protray themselves to the public.