Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone”

Re:Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” by ErrantX on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @07:05AM (#1279115)

I have no real hangup over porn (indeed, I spend days looking at it for work..) but I can see his point.

Apple, understandably, don't want to be in the minefield arena of porn distribution via the App Store - it's a smoking gun in a sense.

This is just a closed product of the App store.

Though it appears Jobs also considers it a moral imperative; which is wrong.

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Re:Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” by robotron on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @08:12AM (#1279209)

To repeat what others have said: there is no porn in the Android Marketplace. There is a 3rd party adult appstore. There are also some "girlie" apps like swimsuit model calendars or whatever. Saying "Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone" is not Jobs defending the iPhone but attacking the Android platform.

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Re:Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” by ErrantX on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @08:20AM (#1279219)

To be fair; Jobs is commenting about Android - not the Android Marketplace. It feels a distinct difference.

(I wasn't commenting on that anyway tbh)

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Re:Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” by theBobMcCormick on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @03:45PM (#1280394)

Total strawman argument. The Android market also doesn't allow porn. See the developer content policy here: http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html.

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Re:Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” by ErrantX on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @03:48PM (#1280409)

Not at all. Android is irrelevant to the point I was making.

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Re:Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” by theBobMcCormick on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @04:00PM (#1280440)

Sorry, I thought your comment about Apple not wanting to be in the porn distribution business related to Jobs misleading and false implication that the Android Market is in the porn business.

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Re:Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” by ErrantX on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @04:03PM (#1280447)

Nah it wasn't. Hosting porn is a potential minefield, one that face I can see why it would be avoided.

Edit; strictly speaking were putting words in his mouth there. He said android not android marketplace. And in that he is strictly accurate.

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