Just as we were speculating a couple nights ago, Apple has apparently decided that with the new parental controls now built into the iPhone 3.0 SDK, nudity is now okay in iPhone apps. The first such app, Hottest Girls, has actually been around for a little while. But an update today “upgraded” the pictures from girls in bikinis and lingerie, to topless and completely naked girls.
“We uploaded nude topless pics today. This is the first app to have nudity,” Hottest Girls’ developer Allen Leung tells Macenstein. Quite an accomplishment.
While some will undoubtedly see this as a bad thing, I think this is actually a good thing. First of all, allowing mature content like this should free up the App Store screeners to be able to focused on finding apps that are actually malicious or out of line, rather than being prude-police.
Second, as we all know, porn is a big industry and as long as the kiddies can’t see it, there’s nothing wrong with adults being allowed to get it on their iPhones. It should make developers a lot of money. And it should make Apple, with its 30% cut, a lot of money. Still, I’d be surprised if we see hardcore pornography in the App Store anytime soon, but who knows.
Lastly, this is the App Store opening up a bit more once again. It did a bit last year when it started letting in cartoon violence NC-17 games, and this is the next step. A more open store, is a better store. Yes, even if it means a flood of crappy soft porn apps. Options are good, download what you want. Though I still believe there needs to be a better sorting and highlighting mechanism from Apple for apps.
It’s possible that this is another case of Apple letting an app slip through that shouldn’t have, but given that the developer is playing up the nudity on the app page, I doubt it. And it looks like Apple has a new rating sub-heading: Rated 17+ for “Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity.”
Hottest Girls is $1.99 in the App Store. Find it here.
Update: Apparently the app has been pulled. I’m not sure why you would have a “nudity” rating if you’re not allowing for, you know, nudity. But whatever, the App Store approval weirdness continues.
Update 2: It looks like it wasn’t Apple that pulled it, but the developer. Other porn apps remain in the store.
Update 3: And wait, it continues. Now Apple is saying no porn apps. Which seems to go against their own ratings.
This will make for an interesting bus ride to work for some
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There’s already a new porn word game for iPhone called “Girl Chaser – Bikini and Nude Edition”.
I think the flood gate has opened.
you can already stream pornhub on iphone
“pornhub?” ugh sounds like a sludgeh mess yo
You could always just go to anonboard.com with the web browser… I don’t see the big deal.
Found this iphone free vod mins http://bit.ly/8S78j
This is the first iPhone feature that makes me want one.
I also want to buy one. Just waiting for some price slash in India :/
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If the parental controls are ok, I say “good for them”
Well, now my kids now.
No this is NOT a good thing. Porn is too easy to find on the net – why should it be so easy to find ‘on the go’ by all the kids that have iphones/Touches?
Well there are setting on the iPhone now to restrict certain apps based on the rating, just turn em on.
i remember there being parental controls on my cable box, too. but i somehow managed to find a way to unlock the “nasty channels”.
allowing adult content on the iPhone/iPod Touch is bad news.
Could care less about your kids. Not apples place to raise them. Not apple’s decision on what is right or wrong for other people’s kids.
It’s the parents job to raise their kids, and if a naked woman on an iphone causes problems, the kids were doomed anyway.
Agree with matt.
Can we get a countdown until some conservative group starts to protest?
How about a countdown for the first lawsuit?
Hate to break it to you, but they could also just boot up Safari on their iPhones and iPod Touches and find porn galore.
Shhh that’s a secret!
Think in app purchase
Oh God, Now I start to think it’s indeed a bad thing.
Topless woman is != porn. Gimme a break. Get out of your sheltered lives.
Dang, now we have to act like parents? God you’re a freaking tool.
In the iPhone/iPod restrictions you could also disable safari….
Here coms the porn spammers.
http://www.yout...h?v=NW9BOVL6bQM
*typo
“Well, now my kids know”
Interesting. Looking forward to receive an invite.
I demand a brunö app!
That is such a Samantha thing to say.
Ich vant to say zat U rock MGS
the umlaut (http://en.wikip...Germanic_umlaut) goes over the U.
Yeah my bad.
The Iphone is Advancing way too rapidly. Soon it will just be a mac…. Love my G1 though.
a dirty mac
there goes the (app store) neighborhood.
yep, there’s an app for “that”
Nude is not porno… ok, maybe it is in arbian countries but that’s another story…
nudity is pornography. period.
unless it’s art.
Yeah Greeks did not have iPhones they had marble
Ok so a photograph of someone posed, whether fully, partially, or unclothed is not art?
In most cases if adult industry finds no business with a media technology or distribution system, then the technology will soon be forgotten.
Can i have this one ?
Will be interesting to see if Apples approval process allows it to stay up. With so many pics in this app, I wonder if Apple did actually go through it and check every one of the 2,000+ pics
Parental controls… pfft.
Kid want porn, kid find porn. Before the iPhone, before the internet. It’s been like that forever. It will be like that forever.
Now that they’ve allowed porn into the app store. We should rename the iPhone the ‘Palm Pilot’ LOL
freedom of speech i suppose – if someone wants to pose nude its their wish, if the store wants to sell it its their risk, and if people wish to view it then so be it – i dont think there is anything wrong with this app. Yes apple needs to moderate but more than that it is the company that developed the app that should moderate before posting…
i like it! I’m gonna try this iPorn.
Well the ratings system which they applied about 2 weeks ago merely gives you a pop up AFTER you have decided to install the App. It just says that the content you are about to download is 17+ which is like a great endorsement as the content you are about to buy must be really good
We think it will probably get pulled, but who knows. It would be trivial to bypass the review process in any case as a lot of these apps dont store all the images in the app, they just get pulled down over datalink when you run them. So fairly easy to just have one set of images on the server and then switch them once the app is approved. So you could quite easily have 500K+ images in an App and they cant check them all. Up to Apple then to find out and pull the app.
This is inevitable and for the good. Very right that its not up to apple to play the prude police. I was surprised when a friend showed me, but youporn has an iphone compatible site letting you watch full screen hardcore anywhere you have service, if thats your thing.
Updating now before Apple changes mind.
Thank god for apps like ‘Picture Safe’ then. I use it to store all me pron on the iPhone. Saved my ass from getting busted many times
Love this pic for parental control on iPhone (gonna try and see if the img tag works here…
Nopes, didn’t. Well, here’s the URL:
http://phonedif...al_controls.jpg
As always it is interesting how porn makes such an impact. Of course Microsoft owns RedTube which I’m sure they are working an app out for to compete against Iporn.
The application has been removed from the App Store
TechCrunch should have had a parent do this write-up. Parents know better than most that parental controls are a joke.
I went to the store but could not find it.
http://www.ekhi...di.com/gallery/
Tina
The app is no longer available
Any reason why my post earlier on this was deleted?
Censorship?
Those TC people that went to China returned with a kinky sense of censorship….
Remember this comic? http://is.gd/1dgL4 (not like Android has been a threat regardless).
In other news, the number of iphone apps exploded from 50,000 to 500,000 and the most searched term is spotlight is now “britney spears’ cooch”
This isn’t porn folks, it’s just nudity. Or does the US have a different definition of Porn than the rest of the world?
I wont be promoting or featuring porn apps on http://www.appgiveaway.com
Would you really want me to???
I don’t want to parent my own child and tell them what they can and cannot see. Thats why I bought them the Iphone.
I agree, nudity is not porn.
soon there will be more nude apps, this is different from hardcore.
ok i think you all are total pussies… i went to the apple convention and i saw the iporn.com girls… they fuc8ing rocked! Steve you need to chill the fuc2 out and let us have our porn on the iPhone… i agree kids shouldnt get it but isnt that life… we all should know how sex works!
I’m interested to see that app giveaway won’t give away saucy pictures but he’s happy to provide sniper games…
I’d say pics were healthier – but we all have our own views of morality; which I guess is Apple’s approach now.
I agree, there’s a lot of violence out there available for regular consumption by children. I think its a lot more harmful for kids to see people being murdered and hacked up than it is to allow them to see a few naked women or even sex. After all, most prude Americans don’t ever think about the fact that suppressing sex and hiding it away is actually more harmful than having it out in the open. Apple sucks for interfering with this… they are a computer company not a censor.