Apple's 7 commandments of app sex?

With mobile porn, subscribers can enjoy a wide-range of high-quality movies and photos on their small mobile device screens.

Well, we should agree on whether 'sexy' contents are right or wrong and what effects they have on society and individuals. According to me as a Muslim these kind of 'sexy' contents are forbidden and are not respectful for any company to encourage these in the first place. It's not respectful for the dignity of women as well.

By the way, that 1.3 billion Islam thingy in your writing wasn't funny.

You know I don't care about they decide on accepting or rejecting but if Apple is going to run this 1984 store then they need to be consistent. So that would mean kicking a lot more apps out of the store based on rule #6 alone. After many people nowadays get their kicks on things other than looking people. Farming apps (gone), nature scenes with trees (gone). You get the idea. And definitely not showing favoritism based on a company's current interest in retaining that client. I'm sure they don't want to piss off SI or the others with their stupid pad device coming out, but be consistent big brother. Of course that gave me a really good idea for a commercial that involves people wearing similar clothes being picked off inconsistently while standing in line to purchase lottery tickets. =)

At the very heart of it Apple is making a good business choice. http://bit.ly/dvCHNC

I agree with PC World, it was only a matter of time before Apple was going to be associated with these degrading apps. This market has exploded on this site over the last few months, and obviously they needed to do something about it.

http://ipad-apps.me/questions/77/letter-to-apple-let-us-have-some-fun-with-the-adult-apps

Dear Apple,

We are a collection of poor Americans, who have been jobless for the
last two years. We can barely afford a trip and all the fun we have is
to look at hot girls, aka adult apps, on our tiny iPhone screen. We
are hoping big for the iPad. The apps on iPad are poised to change the
way people interact with the real world.

But here is the rub: we are unable to use these apps with iPad because
the iPad lacks something... (What, you mean iPad doesn't have a
screen? I can watch adult stuff even with my black and white tv, but
not with this $499 iPad? Now I know why iPads are worse than stones
... )

We are asking Apple to provide adult apps on the iPad. We will be
happy to offer additional technical details.

The impact of adult apps on our lives could be as significant as the
introduction of the PC. In 10 years, we believe adult apps will change
the way everyone experiences travel, design, training, personal
productivity, health care, entertainment, games, art, and advertising.

Looking back just a few years, adult apps had to hack a slew of
components into ridiculously small screens, and be confined to rigged
environments. Nowadays, it comes in friendly, affordable packages and
the iPhone is one of the first devices to have it all – except not any
more.

The battle to determine the winning device has already begun; a public
access to adult apps will give the iPhone a lucrative ticket to
compete.

We believe Apple has a window of opportunity of about 3 months before
developers start looking elsewhere. If Apple decides to approve the
adult apps in that time frame – in the next 10 years, everyone might
be using the iPad as the preferred device to interact with the real
world.

Best regards,

Poor American People

Well it's about flippin' time Apple stepped up to this problem. I couldn't really see Steve's promise holding up when at the release of the App Store he said there would be no porn, but it somehow found it's way on the App Store. Thank you Apple for taking this horrid, disgusting crap out of the App Store. =)

P.S those of you using MobileSafari as an example of something that shouldn't be on the iPhone according to these terms, it's actually your own fault if you get on and browse for bad stuff like this. Don't blame it on Safari. Everyone is responsible for his/her own proper use of MobileSafari. Bad stuff on the App Store however is not a responsibility of anyone but the developer who chose to develop such an app. Finally I can browse the App Store without running into stupid crap like "Sexy Video Babes" or whatever. Those developers seems like all they want is money.

Thanks Apple -- you want sexual content -- there's an app for that -- Safari

Since when is sex a violation of human morals? What's tacky to one person is art to another, just ask Andy Warhol or Mark Pauline. I love Apple, but this is fascist censorhip, pure and simple. Sex does not hurt people, cnesorship promotes a society with a narrow mind.

I agree that those "sexy apps" were filling the app store like spam and making the search for "real" apps harder and harder. But if the are removing them then they Need to make them available in an "adult" or "over 17" section so that they are not just censoring prudishly but rather aggregating usefully. I am not against adult content just against having to sort through it when I am looking for "regular" "useful" apps.

Can someone tell me why sex or erotic related apps should be banned, but i am able to buy a game that allows me to shoot people, kill zombies, have bodyparts dysected etc, just because it is a game?

last time i checked sex and love was a lot more acceptable than war, but hey, i´m in Europe, we are kinda twisted up here.....


pfff. no respect for this decision making process. sorry..