Apple has just dealt a low blow to nerd virgins everywhere: the “draconian” company will no longer allow overtly sexual content in its App Store. As usual, these self-proclaimed freedom fighters are calling Apple Big Brother, Steve Jobs Hitler, and Phil Schiller the antichrist. Among their grievances is a desperate teary-eyed plea: “Where will we find our porn now?”
One would think that these manchildren who spend their lives on computers would have figured out that pornography and sexual content can be found anywhere on the Internet quite easily–and often unintentionally–which is why I feel little sympathy toward them or toward the developers of these apps that are nothing more than collections of free pictures taken from the Internet. It’s completely understandable why Apple would not want to be associated with such tackiness.
The reply by nergins is that by not offering customers the choice for such apps and forcing them to rely on all the dozens of other methods of downloading pictures of scantily clad models, Apple is violating our freedom of speech and worse than Nazi Germany. Most people realize that the First Amendment applies only to the government, which Apple is not. Apple is a business and the iPhone is a platform like Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, or Sony’s Playstation 3; all of these companies decide what is allowed on their consoles.
If you really want pornography on your phone, then use Safari. If you cannot get off on pornography that isn’t in the form of a native app, then jailbreak your phone. If a native pornographic app that is not from the official App Store is unable to arouse you, then you have issues that only a psychiatrist can treat.
It’s all right to be disappointed with Apple’s decisions, but it’s insane to believe they are obligated in any way–especially by the Constitution–to serve you apps to get you off. If this decision of theirs is unwise as they say–and have said about every single business decision Apple has ever made–then they will suffer in the market. I have a feeling though that most people who downloaded these junk apps will easily content themselves with the pictures and videos of naked women that exist EVERYWHERE ELSE.
