Steve Jobs: Folks Who Want Porn Can Buy Android
You won't be getting any iPorn. But you can go buy an Android phone if you want it as an option.
Since Apple has the authority to approve what's sold on its App Store for things that'll run on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, it can also control what users of its devices aren't allowed to see. One such category of things that Apple wants to keep away from its App Store is anything of pornographic nature, and if consumers aren't happy about that, then Steve Jobs will point them to buying an Android phone.
One concerned Apple customer wrote to Steve Jobs:
Steve,
I was converted to Apple products with the announcement of the iPhone 3G. (My friends have been trying to convince me for years.) Since then I’ve purchased 4 iPhones, 2 computers, several routers, and miscellaneous other items. Unfortunately, I’m really starting to have a philosophical issue with your company. It appears that more and more Apple is determining for it’s consumers what content they should be able to receive. For instance, the blocking of Mark Fiore’s comic app (due to being political satire) or blocking of what Apple considers to be porn.I’m all for keeping porn out of kids hands. Heck – I’m all for ensuring that I don’t have to see it unless I want to. But… that’s what parental controls are for. Put these types of apps into categories and allow them to be blocked by their parents should they want to.
Apple’s role isn’t moral police – Apple’s role is to design and produce really cool gadgets that do what the consumer wants them to do.
Thanks for listening
-Matthew
Steve Jobs replied:
Fiore’s app will be in the store shortly. That was a mistake. However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and Android phone.
Jobs' response was mostly a reiteration of what he said at the end of the iPhone OS 4.0 reveal during a Q&A session:
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.
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I guess he just told his entire male audience that buy iTouch/iPhone/iPad to buy Android!
ROFL! That is a classy answer, TBH.
"Folks who want porn can buy and Android phone."
He says it like it somehow makes the superior phone a bad thing.
LOLOLOL
For a company that's so clever at tapping the minds of innocents, he sure doesn't know how to roll in still more $$$. An iporn app would generate millions- literally.
This adds even more evidence to the pile of Job's being gay.
Wow, cocky much there.
I'll Bet he has one for his porn moments though.
The internet wouldn't exist if it wasn't for porn! What do you think will happen with his phone when the Android has it?
Sorry if you have a strong need for porn on the go with your Iphone you have bigger things to deal with other then iphone apps being rated G....like what excuse to tell the cop that catches you touching yourself in a bathroom stall.
"...buy and Android phone" ? I'm pretty sure that should be AN not AND. Maybe Stevie watched too much porn as a kid and didn't listen in grammar class o.O
Sorry if you have a strong need for porn on the go with your Iphone you have bigger things to deal with other then iphone apps being rated G....like what excuse to tell the cop that catches you touching yourself in a bathroom stall.
What if I want to read a comic that has nudity? Where is the line drawn? Will I be forbidden to play really violent game? Or get med school flash cards because there's breasts in them? Problem is, Apple is in full control as always and they do what they want to do, regardless of what their users want.
"Folks who want porn can buy and Android phone."
So not only is he an insufferably arrogant douche, he's also illiterate as well.
And that is why I own a Nexus One!
(well, not really, but it made for an interesting punch-line)
Wasn't everyone saying that porn would decide the HD war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray? Look what happened to HD-DVD!
So everyone?
Way ahead of you Jobs...
Wasn't everyone saying that porn would decide the HD war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray? Look what happened to HD-DVD!
You mean take a look at the almost $8 billion Sony bribed the studios with to support only bluray?
Of course, the money was disguised as 'marketing funds' much like how Intel gave out its bribes to companies that agreed to not use AMD processors.
what is he? a spokes person for android now??
I mean it's not like you would be sacrificing anything to change to android...
Sony banned porn on betamax and look what happened there. Can't say I'd want it on my phone but it's better to have the option and not use it and to want it and not have it. Methinks Steve might be shooting himself in the foot with this inflexibility that he's been showing of late.
OK
Wow, cocky much there.I'll Bet he has one for his porn moments though.
after the incident with PINK SOCK(look it up) its all he does.
Fiore’s app will be in the store shortly. That was a mistake.
Funny how Mark Fiore's app denial was a "mistake" only after he won the Pulitzer Prize.
Sorry if you have a strong need for porn on the go with your Iphone you have bigger things to deal with other then iphone apps being rated G....like what excuse to tell the cop that catches you touching yourself in a bathroom stall.
You know unless you are making a lot of noise in there it really isn't illegal to masturbate in a bathroom stall, as long as you are quiet and no one can see you they can't stop you.
Steve Jobs rules. Period! I am so glad that there are people out there trying to protect us from stupidity and perverts. There is no need for porn on iPhones. The Internet is vast and if you need to watch porn you can do it on your own terms. Also, you can pretty much browse from your iPhone's browsers to any porn page you want. Oh, wait! You guys don't own an iPhone. So, why do you get all upset? Bunch of whiners! Also, God is watching you.
...and yet people keep thinking that apple products are cool and good. They are neither.
Steve Jobs rules. Period! I am so glad that there are people out there trying to protect us from stupidity and perverts. There is no need for porn on iPhones. The Internet is vast and if you need to watch porn you can do it on your own terms. Also, you can pretty much browse from your iPhone's browsers to any porn page you want. Oh, wait! You guys don't own an iPhone. So, why do you get all upset? Bunch of whiners! Also, God is watching you.
Gj for acting like a condescending jerk. I really don't want to start a religious flamewar...so I won't.
Title should be:
"Steve Jobs: Folks who want freedom can buy Android".
So Apple fans let me get this straight. You paid X amount of money for an (not "and" Steve) IPhone/IPod/IPad and you are ok with someone else telling you what you can or cannot use it for.
Wow....
iphone takes up one hand, pressing the buttons occupies the other...what's it matter if there's no porn available if you don't have a free hand?
I think "porn would decide the HD war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray" is only intended for grabbing readers' attention. Seriously, I don't think porn is THAT popular.
I-Phone users who find what Jobs said offensive can always get an Android phone, which is also another cool gadget. Of course, iPhone is not all about Jobs.
I don't know about the iPhone but the iPod Touch can download porn, be hacked, jail broke, and a variety of other things that apple never thought of. If you rely on tech to protect your children you overestimate the tech and underestimate your children.
Big brother does not like porn...
Can not watch video...
Can not view image...
User going WTF
Spoof priceless
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ [...] o1_500.jpg
you guys are being stupid. a cell phone began and as a device for using in public (as opposed to a land line phone) and though many people use cell phones at home they still have that stigma. Porn on a cell just seems sleazy. While you guys are typically treating jobs as though he were both a moron and evil genius at the same time your missing why there is value to a phone staying clean. I like porn...at home.
...Me looking around the office, thinking...
Hmm, do I own any Apple products?
Pause...
Um, no. OK... Good!
"we do believe we have a moral responsibility."
To Steve: No, you don't. And don't even try...
Statements like this KEEP ME AWAY from buying anything with the Apple logo on it.