Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
“Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone”
Image via WikipediaWhen questioned about Apple’s role as moral police in the App Store, Jobs responds that “we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.” Better, is what he said next: “Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.“
Last week, another Jobs email about the Fiore situation was published in which Jobs called the situation a “mistake.” He noted the same thing in this email, but the porn/Android link is the key here. Assuming this email is legit, this isn’t the first time Jobs has suggested users try Android if they want porn. Earlier this month, during a Q&A session after the iPhone 4.0 OS event, Jobs said:
You know, there’s a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That’s a place we don’t want to go – so we’re not going to go there.
This is noteworthy both because it’s funny, and because Apple and Google are in the early stages of a war that’s brewing between the iPhone and Google’s Android platform. Jobs is apparently going to keep taking these jabs from what he considers to be the moral high-ground.
Read the full back-and-forth below:
Matthew Browing, an Apple customer wrote the following to Jobs:
Steve,
I was converted to Apple products with the announcement of the iPhone 3G. (My friends have been trying to convince me for years.) Since then I’ve purchased 4 iPhones, 2 computers, several routers, and miscellaneous other items. Unfortunately, I’m really starting to have a philosophical issue with your company. It appears that more and more Apple is determining for it’s consumers what content they should be able to receive. For instance, the blocking of Mark Fiore’s comic app (due to being political satire) or blocking of what Apple considers to be porn.I’m all for keeping porn out of kids hands. Heck – I’m all for ensuring that I don’t have to see it unless I want to. But… that’s what parental controls are for. Put these types of apps into categories and allow them to be blocked by their parents should they want to.Apple’s role isn’t moral police – Apple’s role is to design and produce really cool gadgets that do what the consumer wants them to do.Thanks for listening-Matthew
In response, Jobs replied:
Fiore’s app will be in the store shortly. That was a mistake. However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and Android phone.
Yes, Jobs apparently made a typo (and -> an), but we checked the IP headers on the email and they are legit. Of course, these can be faked, but it seems hard to believe that someone would go to all the work of sending us an email in which they changed all the IPs or manipulated all the time elements only to attach their real name and real email address to send it to us.
And no, the email doesn’t end with the usual “sent from my iPhone” or the new favorite, “sent from my iPad,” but again, looking at the header information, that’s because it was sent using Apple Mail. Jobs has been known to do this in the past (and recently) as well.
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Actress Cleo Pires Tops the World of Playboy Brazil
You must know the sextastic wonderment that is Cleo Pires, Brazilian award-winning film actress and telenovela star and one of the many reasons I'm headed down to Rio soon, very soon, to take in the sights and sounds, and sights. Playboy Brazil featured Cleo Pires in their 35th anniversary edition last Fall, and have brought her back double time, with twice the boobtastic flare, for their special edition this month featuring some of the very best of Brazilian native hotness. As if being the birth place of a dozen or more of the world's finest supermodels was not enough, not it's actresses gone hot and nekkid. I really do think I may have found my true adopted homeland. Enjoy.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Playboy: 49% Of Women Have Done Things On Camera
By Mark Lorenz on May 21st, 2011
In non-apocalyptic news that should shock the world – Playboy magazine has released a survey of people’s sexual proclivities. And the results may shock those of you who own a camera.Playboy is a crumbling enterprise – they don’t pay their models enough money, are slowly letting more and moreanimals out of the mansion’s zoo and into their centerfolds, and remains a business model of something that was once valid and valued that has been displaced entirely by the internet. It used to be that starlets, really attractive women that were on the covers – now it’s the girls that Hugh Hefner, octagenarian has set out to pasture. The only contemporary venture they’re making? The establishment of NBC’s ‘The Playboy Club’ – the only show that’s more likely to be cancelled than Paul Reiser’s return to TV.
So recently, Playboy released an infograph of sexual statistics. It’s up to you, reader, to decide if they’re truth to the claim that 49% of women have admitted to engaging in a sexual act on camera.
49%? Really? So for every two women you see in your day-to-day, one of them has fondled her breasts or done things to a man on Polaroid? I refuse it. I refuse it.
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