I just saw this on the web.
Looking for porn? Get a Google phone, Steve Jobs said recently, defending Apple’s role as moral watchdog following complaints that a political satire app had been flagged as pornography.
But some say the iPhone is anything but PG, and they’re questioning how much effort Apple is investing in keeping itself clean.
The socially conservative Parents Television Council (PTC) thinks a wealth of salacious apps are currently available for iPhone users — things like “My Vibe,” which converts the iPhone into a vibrator, and “Love Positions Free,” which has drawings of couples having sex. The group has publicly demanded that Apple stop providing porn to children — and clean up its act.
But Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs disagrees, saying that hard-core porn is verboten on his family-friendly iPhone. “We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone,” the man in the black turtleneck recently told a customer, according to TechCrunch.
As part of that responsibility, the company has removed many apps from the iTunes store that it deems inappropriate, including “Dirty Fingers Screen Wash,” in which girls in bikinis “clean” the inside of the iPhone’s screen, and “Tight Body Perky Boobs,” a collection of photos of young women.
“Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone,” Jobs said, referring to the adults-only app store available for the Google platform that powers the Android.