I use an android, I guess I got the right phone
Posted by
zeitgeist
Apr 20 '10, 16:46
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Steve Jobs reportedly took another shot at Google's Android operating system, saying that's where people looking for porn should go.
Jobs' remark came from an e-mail he apparently sent to an Apple customer who was concerned about Apple's practice of not approving some apps that it finds objectionable. Jobs told the customer that cases like the December rejection of an app by Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore was a "mistake," but that porn won't find a home in the Apple App Store.
"Fiore's app will be in the store shortly. That was a mistake," Jobs wrote in the e-mail shared with TechCrunch. "However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and (sic) Android phone."
This isn't the first time Jobs has taken aim at Android for being open to porn. At the iPhone 4.0 preview event on April 8, he said much the same thing.
"You know, there's a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn," Jobs said. "That's a place we don't want to go. So we're not going to go there."
The App Store has been not only porn-free but largely devoid of any nudity at all. A number of other apps have also been turned away for a variety of reasons, not having to do with sexual content. Other political satire apps like Fiore's have been turned down only to be accepted later.
It's doubtful that Android would suffer (or even gain) from these remarks. There's still plenty of porn available on the iPhone now, just through its Safari browser.
This really just illustrates that Jobs feels a certain, some would say excessive, protectiveness about the App Store. And that he really has no love for Android.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=61713#ixzz0lgbQDcNE
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