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Steve Jobs Recommends Android For Fans of Porn
hansamurai writes "After being asked about the App Store's recent ban on 'sexy apps,' Steve Jobs responded, 'We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone. 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.' Apps such as Playboy's and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition are still available on the App Store, however, as they come from 'more reputable companies.'"
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"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Or he only watches "reputable porn"?
Sales of Android phones increased 1000%.
Suddenly I really like Android.
I see the glass as full with a FoS of 2.
And iPhone users (including children) don't have access to porn? Last time I checked (guilty as charged!) there are iPhone specific streaming sites for porn. Instead of going to the app store all they have to open up Safari and google for the goodies.
Is it my imagination, or is Steve being more douchey than usual?
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Well he's got that going for him.
He is really being a dick there. There's a "porn store" for the iPhone as well, called "Mobile Safari". If anything, the prices are lower.
However, if he is going to be an asshole he should have gone just a little further... Something to the effect of "And the inferior multitouch support won't bother you nearly as much if you are always using your phone one-handed..."
Steve, buddy! Thanks for the recommendations, I'm a huge fan of pr0n. Could you also recommend pr0n-friendly restaurants, hotels, bakeries etc?
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It looks like Apple will have to disable all internet connectivity in their products in order to fulfill their moral responsibility.
As if applications are the only porn vector. Let's get rid of Safari too while we're at it.
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I don't need Apple to act as a morality police for what I do with something I own.
Steve Jobs responded, "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone. "
Well, I don't see that porn is particularly harmful to children, especially compared to the violence in media and games sold on the iPhone, so I don't know why one would be a moral imperative and the other would not. I actually think this is marketing, designed to appeal to parents who want their kids kept safe from the evils of... umm... boobies?
But that's okay. If he's recommending an Android phone, I'll probably take him up on it when I purchase a smartphone.
An android that's "fully functional and programmed in multiple techniques!" Star Trek fans are drooling!
Apple products are for girly men... Or not.
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This is marketing-speak for "We're going to be opening the Apple Porn Store very soon. You think the rigid curves of our multi-touch sensors are cool? You ain't seen nothing. Wait for Steve Jobs to say, 'And one more thing.'"
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Jobs is contractually obligated to be the biggest prick in the Apple universe.
Steve Jobs would like to loudly announce that his competitor's product has a feature he won't ever implement.
Jobs simultaneously drags the android through the mud while claiming a moral high ground for the iphone. what's Google going to do? Trying to defend pornography will be an uphill battle going to a place "where we don't want to go".
nicely played.
Wow, is this a statement about the second derivative?
You know, there's a porn store for Android, you can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn.
How does he know?
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Finally, a real choice!
They cause earthquakes, don'tcha know.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
... and back into homes, where it belongs!
Steve Jobs doesn't like porn!?!?!?!
Time to pull him up to testify before these folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
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After being asked about the App Store's recent ban on "sexy apps," Steve Jobs responded, "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn out of the app store to keep the moronic soccer moms off our ass. Folks who want porn can just use safari and browse to it like a normal person. You know, there's plenty of porn available on the iPhone, and plenty of gay porn hookup apps that soccer moms won't even notice. You can download porn via the browser, or any number of "respectable" apps from companies that make us a lot of money like Playboy and Sports Illustrated , your kids can download porn on their iPhones faster than we can attempt to block it, so we just come up with some lame ass story for the soccer mom's and they buy it because they are fucking pathetically stupid. That's a place we don't want to go, blocking safari, because we know kids will find their porn via browser anyway, so we're not going to go there."
What is it about porn that makes so many Americans so scared their children will see it?
"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone."
Apple's only moral responsibility is to let their users do whatever they feel like, and they have failed.
The "Apple cult" image tossed around as a joke and an insult is becoming more and more true every day. You can't simply buy a device from Apple - you have to buy their device, their software, their platform, and their tastes, desires and morals too, and once you do, you can't separate any of them. This isn't vendor lock-in, it's religion.
Where is Steve going to draw the line... Netflix might have some movies on the edge, or tv shows. What's next?
Droid Does
Never have been particularly bright, hence I relish my moment of utter brilliance when deciding for Android. And I'll soon be able to flash too!
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Didn't Sony pretty much take the exact same stance with their Betamax format? How did that work out for them?
Apple has a moral responsibility to provide only high quality apps, and sees that it is necessary to forbid anyone from using their iPhone if they do not abide by their rules; This includes banning porn, and politically sensitive matters. China has a moral responsibility to provide only the highest quality websites, and sees that it is necessary to forbid anyone from using their Internet if they do not abide by their rules; This includes banning porn, and politically sensitive matters.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
I end up liking Bill Gates that much more.
Last time I checked (guilty as charged!) there are iPhone specific streaming sites for porn.
Sure, but they don't come through Apple. Any application is sold through Apple, so they are at least marginally responsible for content.
But as you noted, it really doesn't matter since the internet itself offers porn in vast quantities.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
For anyone who's about to bitch and moan about Apple closing their app store to questionable apps ("porn"), and I know that list is long, ask yourself if you have a problem with Walmart dictating what products can and cannot appear on their store shelves. If you are ok with Walmart having enormous control over what appears in their stores, to the point that content providers will make Walmart-friendly CDs (for example), then feel free to bitch about Apple doing exactly the same thing. At the very least you'll be consistent in your view that stores everywhere should carry everything just because it exists, regardless of whatever business plan they may have and customer base they may wish to appeal to. Otherwise, keep your complaints to yourself because every damn store on the planet does this. Walmart, which has probably the broadest selection of products, doesn't carry everything, just because it exists, so why should Apple? Just because someone wants to build it and just because some people want to buy it doesn't qualify something to appear in a company's store...
Yeah. I'm grumpy. Deal with it.
pocketpoon rocks on the iPhone
... and have apple go back to the niche market it deserves with it's close-minded dysfunctional ideas ?
The rest of us will be able to move forward faster without them in the way!
And those religious people needing to be told what to see or think can go back to their savior company...
I have an iPhone and a MacBook. But Jobs is increasingly pissing me off.
I gotta jailbreak my phone that I bought just so a) I can put the music on it that I want, b) it can't be turned off remotely or apps uninstalled without my say-so, c) it can have a video camera without a $$ upgrade - that's all bad enough. But I knew that going in.
But the way Jobs is going about deciding what CONTENT I get to have? WTF is that?
Sign me up for an Android when my contract with AT&T is done. That is, if I don't just switch the iPhone to Verizon anyway - another attempt to control my choices that Jobs can blow me for.
The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is what punches workers in the nuts.
And if they do, they plug it into a computer to get your software updates, where they browse the pr0n anyway.
Oh and Steve, let me change the goddamn background skin.
~Mekkah
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No, no, no. Apple is simply saying they will not sell apps that contain porn. You are free to find it yourself and view it via Safari or install via iTunes. Please don't confuse the issue.
Just don't bitch when it gets all unstable.
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seriously, this is a winning argument?
According to Jobs, this only applies if you're interested in straight porn.......if you're into hardcore gay porn the Iphone remains the choice of the discerning connoisseur.
Every quarter for the past year Android has been doubling its marketshare.
Back in January Android phones were selling at a rate of some 22 million phones worldwide a year. That number has to be much larger by now that another quarter has passed. Would not be surprised if Android was up in the 40 million a year or so range by now.
With Apple's cellphone marketshare flat lining and starting to decline it shouldn't be any shock that Jobs is apoplectically shitting his panties over the massive success of Android.
Historically those who have tried failed. Perhaps because those who try to control free speech are doomed to fail? More likely because no amount of Apple technology can dominate the male biological imperative. This is either a big mistake on their part or they'll be eating their words soon.
Just as an FYI, you won't be able to bring your iPhone to Verizon because each network operates on a completely different frequency. If/when iPhone goes to VZW, it'll have a different antenna than the ATT one.
Sony Betamax recommends VHS if you're a fan of porn.
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Because I want a phone that is really good at making phone calls. Like my Motorola V3, on Verizon, which gets signal in places where iPhones (and Droids) don't.
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Everyone sing!
The Android phone is for porn!
The Android phone is for porn!
Why you thing Android was born?
Porn, porn, porn!
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He's not going to get techies this way.
But he's not going to lose the iPhone-is-neato customers, and he's not going to lose the if Apple made a toilet I'd buy it crowd. Those groups either don't care that they're restricted, don't know they're restricted, or actually want to be restricted.
He's saying this for consumption by the media. It's a nice buzz-bit. "Android is for porn." The media will repeat it because it's pithy and uses a titillating word. And the folks who have no clue about restrictions will repeat this to themselves when they go to buy a phone. Wives will insist that husbands buy iPhones for themselves and for the kids.
This is not Jobs being stupid. This is both genius and an indication that Jobs is very, very afraid. His control-everything system depends on him being the master of really the only very good phone/tablet system. There's another system and pretty soon it'll be good enough to make his look less revolutionary. He needs another way to keep his silo full.
We now all know, Steve is a wanker too. Poll: left, or right, handed?
I say left!
who the fuck watches porn on their phone? it seems like jerking off while holding an iphone in your other hand could get kind of uncomfortable.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Remember when people were saying that the hi-def fight would be decided by the porn industry? Yup, HD-DVD sure kicked ass and took names. Right up until an Evil Corporation decided to knock it on the ground and take its lunch money.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
That is, if I don't just switch the iPhone to Verizon anyway
Good luck with that, buddy. You going to swap the GSM chip out for a CDMA one yourself, or pay someone to do it?
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
They always say that pornography is the first to jump into next technology, paving the way. This is interesting, because there are plenty of porn sites out that there work just fine on the iPhone... without Flash.
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He is really being a dick there. There's a "porn store" for the iPhone as well, called "Mobile Safari". If anything, the prices are lower.
He's got balls though, if he think he can be a bigger dick than those in the porn business
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I guess that means no Leisure Suit Larry for the iPhone. Right now someone is porting LL to Android.
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Nope, Verizon's network is CDMA, iPhone is GSM.....
Some bring out the best in others, some the worst. Some bring out far more.
You're just figuring out right now what a dickhead Steve Jobs is? Good for you! Sell that shit and get stuff that doesn't require you to drink the kool aid.
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can't load porn onto?
Good luck with that. I was going to say they have one, and it's called ' a rock'. Even then I could draw porn on it..or have someone with better skills draw porn on it.
I wonder if he plans to move his morality into other devices they sell?
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I look forward to watching the iPhone achieve the same irrelevance as the Macintosh.
Buy our iPhone! Unless you're one of those porn-addicted Android users. I certainly welcome competition, and our competitors are doing a great job of fulfilling that niche market of phones for porn addicts. So if you're proud of being addicted to porn, show everyone just how much you mean it by purchasing my competitor's fine Android product and taking it with you everywhere. Android: There's no better way to tell the world "I'd rather be watching porn!"
And they won't let you buy apps from any other source.
Using a monopoly to enforce a morality. So it's finally happen, Apple is now officially a religion.
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He should have told that before. No iPhone for me, I guess.
You can get the Nexus One for AT&T now. yay!
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Video games and porn. Steve has undermined half of the reason the internet exists. Not a good move there buddy.
In response, Google announces full support for Flash 10.1 in a new release of Android OS, "for better RedTube experience".
You can buy a laptop from Apple and run anything you like on it. And get the pr0n. Why so different Steve?
Or how long before Apple laptops are locked and need to be jailbroked to run stuff?
"The porn guys are pikers: They pay to screw their employees. My customers pay me to screw them."
Yours in manifest serenity, S. Jobs
"Mobile Safari" actually sounds like a great name for a mobile porn site.
What makes you think we can fuck just because I let you put your tongue in my mouth and you twisting my tities
Just when you thought the apple marketing machine couldn't get any more sanctimonious, Jobs goes and says something like this.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Does not the Jobs know the lesson of BetaMax?
Of the things that killed BetaMax between keeping a closed standard and not allowing pron to use the format, the betting man would be safer with the later and not the former.
Kudos to Steve. We don't need people jerking off in public dammit. Go home and jerk off at your computer for a change.
For using the word "porny"
Wow, that's quite a responsiblity. Presumably they'll be removing the browser from the next iPhone, since that's currently a pretty easy way to get porn on the iPhone.
I wonder if he's ever going to go after Grindr? My bet is no way. Apple does not want to lose the gays.
Jobs is going to bring apple down the way he is talk about Google, and adobe.
-- Free, as in freedom *and* free as in porn!
Well, O.K., it needs work.
If you want to choice, buy an Android phone?
Honestly, I know Steve meant for this to be a burn, but it's not a very smart statement. :\
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Is the extreme hypocrisy of allowing SI swimsuit and Playboy apps but saying "We don't allow porn."
Look, it is my well educated opinion that Playboy, soft-core BS, swimsuit calendars/photoshoots, and basically the societal desire to objectify women through "moral" sexualizations causes MORE harm than XXX hard core pornography does. Why? Because it's insidious and sends terrible messages to people and messes with their psyches. It's OK to objectify and look at women sexually as long AS LONG AS THERE'S NO SEX INVOLVED?! But, wait, isn't that the point? Oh, no, it's better to get guys hot and bothered with teases and pics of scantily clad women everywhere and then tell them "SEX IS BAD!!!" than it is to show them videos of ACTUAL SEX and saying, "Meh, it's just sex." REALLY?? This is the moral stance??? It's OK to have Janet Jackson sing about sexual topics, dress sluttily and grind her body against a man in a mock sexual ritual but "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!! 0.5 SECONDS OF TIT JUST FLASHED ACROSS MY TV SCREEN!!!" That messes with people's heads and gives them warped ideas about sexuality and women.
So Steve Jobs can keep his "moral" porn and I'll hang on to the stuff that doesn't pander to me and send me mixed messages about what's right and wrong, what's ok and what's dirty, and enjoy the wisdom of knowing IT'S ALL ABOUT SEX without pretending "sex but not sex" is somehow better than just sex without all the BS.
>> Playboy's and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition are still available on the App Store, however, as they come from 'more reputable companies
Ahh so kids seeing "reputable" porn is OK then ehh Steve? ... Obviously this actually has nothing to do with porn and all to do with licencing revenue.
What's worse then someone telling me what I can and can't watch or read? Someone lying about why they are doing it - pretending that they are doing it for some sort of morality or public good when it has become obvious that they aren't.
Then again, I guess explanations used for censorship are usually dishonest so I shouldn't be surprised.
People have already pointed out that the iPhone is, in fact, not a porn-free zone. It is, though, becoming a competition free zone as Apple blocks apps that might compete with their own or those of their corporate buddies.
I truly own my AAPL shares! They opened 6% over yesterday's close. I thought I was hallucinating this morning.
Apple released a quarterly earnings report showing that they sold 8.75 million of those horrible phones when 7 million had been projected.
..but sweatshop labor, berating employees to the point that they kill themselves, locking you into our products, we'll go there no problem.
We all know where betamax ended up in the video tape wars.
And its not because of porn. The iPhone has still a browser. So you could still surf to pron sites if you want. It is the attitude which drives me to free phones. Steve does not want Java on the phone and Steve does not like flash on the iPhone (ok flash sucks, but it should be my decission), Steve does not like cartoons on the iPhone, because some could be offended by them, and Steve does not want other app-stores for the iPhone. Steve's phone has iTunes build in, but you cannot easily interface that thing with other music stores. In short the iPhone is dongle ware. I will never buy dongle ware again.
So the Android phone is a direct substitute for the iPhone, and also has porn? Thanks for clearing that up Steve!
Also, I don't think anyone failed to map "more reputable companies" to "companies that can pay us enough to shelve our so-called principles"...
What's that you fucking piece of shit?
Apple has been flat lining in cellphone market-share and is now losing market-share while Android is growing at an astronomical rate.
Keep your pathetic Apple fanboy mouth shut from now on dipshit.
Although I do hope Apple doesn't lose out to Android too quickly. It will be fun to see the AAPL price bubble take them above MSFT for a short while before bursting.
Apparently, he forgot to learn all the important lessons in that movie. Again. Where's Noah Wyle when you need him?
I hate to break it to the iFanBoys but censorship from Apple and endorsed by s/God/Jobs/ himself is still censorship and complete bullshit.
Porn on the iPhone is alive and well. http://www.youporn.com/
Do androids wet dream of electric sheep?
If you Google "iPhone Porn" it shows 28,200,000 results. You don't need a separate app to show it.
If you Google "Android Porn" it shows only 2,350,000 results. The bottom line is Steve Jobs and Apple support porn more than anyone, reputable or not.
I've noticed a trick that media companies use whenever their ratings start to dwindle they: bring up a topic having to do with sex or porn to help, like viagra for ratings. Perhaps this is an indication that iProducts have peaked?
Hope is the currency of fools
Where are these so called "porn" apps of which he speaks? I dont see anything porn related in the android store with the exception of some "privacy" browser which just deletes cookies and history and stuff. Yea the Android Market is much more open than the Apple Store, but its not exactly teaming with porn apps. Jobs is just a douche bag trying to justify his communist/socialist attitude a bunch of BS aimed at discrediting his competitors.
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No seriously... where are these porn apps??? Inquiring minds want to know! lol
Joff-on-the-go? Really?
In still other news, a sex tape has surfaced, allegedly of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
Jobs reportedly says at one point "Man, if this sex tape ever gets out, and those hipsters learn what we're doing with these iphones..." to which Gates replies "Whoa, you'd have to try to convince them not to look at porn or something!"
(Note so I don't get sued: this is 100% false, obviously)
Air Video on iPad = win. Love the live conversion feature. No need to convert everything to mp4!
For all you newbies to Air Video, basically you run Air Video server on a host machine, set up a directory that contains all your videos/pr0n, and then connect as a client from the iPad/iPhone/iPod. It's really convenient, and works well on a local network. You can even set it up to stream over the internet if you have a fast upstream.
They're still there.
Top Free Apps:
23: Sex Positions
6: Crazy Hamster (I'm not even clicking on that!)
And that is the porn industry...
You see Kids, if one is in the porn business they do in fact have to be the morality police, because there's this thing known as child pornography which is not only incredibly fucking immoral but it's also illegal. So the "legal" porn has to make sure it's legal by confirming that all participants are over the age of 18.
Droid does porn
They censor song names in iTunes. They censor apps...
When do they start censoring the music content? How about the movies? Will Apple start demanding edited movies like Walmart did?
Fuck Apple and their hypocrisy. They say they're the "artist friendly" company... and yet they dictate content and censor song names?
so Steve declaired that Android is the superiour mobile web device?
Why so different Steve?
Because Apple runs, promotes and handles the money from the App store. If you were able to buy porn from the App Store you would be buying porn from Apple.
In a country where a glimpse of Janet Jackson's Bristols causes a massive scandal and phone-number fines for the messenger, and even moobs now seem to be unacceptable, you can see why they might want to keep the smut at arm's length.
If you buy a Mac (or, even, access porn from the iPhone) then your smut is being provided by a third party. You're not buying it from Apple.
When App writers protest about the T&Cs of the app store, its easy to forget that they're getting a shedload of indirect publicity from Apple. Try getting your better mousetrap on the shelves at Walmart...
(I'd concede that the "originally written in C/C++/ObjC" curb is bonkers, though).
OTOH, Apple may do a u-turn and release the iWank at the next press conference...
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
I don't believe any sane person believes that maximizing shareholder profits at the expense of consumer freedom and choice is a moral thing. And no, Wall Street is not sane.
Apple has a financial responsibility to it's shareholders, not a moral one. If the law allowed companies to put babies on spikes and make an obscene amount of profit from doing so, any company would do it. The amount of profit companies make these days is obscene. Naked people doing acts based on natural bodily functions to give each other pleasure is not obscene.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
Sorry Steve, -1 Flamebait.
Also... Where is this "porn market" for android? I've been using Android phones since the G1. I can remember when there were few enough apps on the market that I was literally able to examine them all. I've never seen or even heard of anything like a porn market for Android. Steve is involved in libel here, plain and simple.
Any plan which depends on a fundamental change in human behavior is doomed from the start.
Tongue in cheek, folks... damn.
I'm pretty sure that my wife would have something to say about Playboy being considered 'reputable'.
No you don't. You have a fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders to sell as many iPhones as possible. You are not in the morality business.
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People are complaining about services they accepted/knew were controlled, for some this control is a benefit, for others its something to whine about,
I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone, Steve isn't stopping me from putting porn on my devices, its there; itunes will gladly import chix with dix and tijuana dawn key show just fine; what Steve is doing is making the end user make the choice and not having his storefront require an offensive version and a non offensive version (who chooses?).
I am LMAO, if your a geek and you bought an iDevice and expected something else your not a very bright geek, it is a better sign of customer service to say no once in a while, Steve apparently believes this and identified someone that was not the targeted customer for his services, recognizing this and suggesting a product that does suit the needs of the person asking even when its a competitors product is newsworthy and a fair share better than what his competitors would do.
mod me as a fanboy, mod me as a troll.
Unix, an obscure operating system developed by bored researchers in an attempt to get a better game playing experience.
Steve is the legend...
get away hey you fucked guys go horny android!
So, he is a dick and an asshole? And he claims his company's phone doesn't support porn?
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
If “wanting porn” is what it takes to gain freedom of choice, then damn it, I want porn. Hence the new "Yes, Steve... I Want Porn" Android badge (http://www.esarcasm.com/13639/android-porn-badge/). Wear it loud, wear it proud.
I think it is safe to say, without even a hint of hyperbole, that Steve Jobs is a fascist. As soon as censorship becomes a "moral responsibility", something has gone deeply wrong. Supporting Apple is supporting the death of the creativity and freedom that the company likes to pretend it nurtures. Think too different, and your work will be dragged out in the middle of the night and shot.
Computers running OSX are unsafe for children!
Actually, I think your argument is the one that is, er, unsound. Jobs said Apple wants to keep porn of the iPhone - meaning Apple does not want to endorse porn. He said nothing about the iPhone not having access to porn via channels beyond Apple. You didn't read the statement comprehensively.
Apple simply wants to keep porn out of its media-content store. Apple's target demographic is families and education. As an Apple shareholder, I completely agree. There is no need in Apple's business model for Apple to endorse nor allow porn-centric apps.
Which comes to another point: sites who create iPhone-friendly content are in no way a relection on Apple's content policy. Thats a fallacy of logic. Apple has nothing to do with those sites.
As well as, those who are ridiculing Jobs' position because the web browser can access porn have no ground to criticize Apple for blocking content - because according to the critics, the content isn't blocked. To do so, contradicts their own line of reasoning - and is *unsound*.
Apple just reported the the best non-holiday quarter ever in the middle of the worst recession, surpassing similar companies... Only a fool would criticize Apple's strategies.
But its not "porn"....it is Brazilian Fart Erotica.
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
Well said Jobs!
It preferable to watch porn on an Android than to allow certain applications like iFranco, that displays the "best" speeches of that Spanish fascist dictator (Francisco Franco).
Nice :D
Apple actually acknowledged that Android exists! I thought that was a big no-no
Decrypting porn into enjoyment should be illegal too!
I recommend avoiding the cream filled donuts.
Thanks Steve for reinforcing my decision to go with Verizon and the Droid and not an iPhone.
just go to www.iPhonePornGrid.com on your Mobile Safari == Porn on ur iPhone. Problem solved. Works on none JB iPhones as well.
End of internal debate, I guess I"ll be going with an Android.
Phone. Android PHONE.
to need porn.
There's NOT and app for that. :-)
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I remember when Steve jobs was the anti big brother guy (think the famous 80's "1984" Mac ad) and Bill Gates was the evil greedy corporate guy. Now Bill Gates is one of the world's greatest philanthropists and Steve Jobs is telling us what we should and shouldn't be looking at, kind of ironic.
"Just about anything, there is an app for that" is really a lie.
i came to say that exact thing. Also that "kids" should not be using cel phones in the first place. Not until they have a job and can actually pay the bill.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
At least Jobs admits his products are aimed at kids and those of limited intellect.
I am glad that Steve stood up to ALL of you fools. Have you not read all of the studies (many) that conclude that porn is bad, in many ways, for you! Why don't you quit jacking off and go and meet a nice girl and take her on a date and treat her like a lady should be treated. I am just shocked there are so many people in here that are SO mad about his comments. Who cares what he says. All of your morals suck, and maybe you should rethink what REALLY makes you happy in life...which would be everything except jacking off.
First off, you have 3 anecdotes, not 2. Secondly, what the fuck were you thinking having a kid with a bitch who would press charges against you over something like that? Thirdly, why would you accept oversight by a "mental health professional" in parenting your children?
You have only yourself to blame for your dumbfuck problems.
... is that sex is supposed to be so bad, but violence is accepted on the iPhone. Yay for a seriously twisted mindset.
Apple has always done things there own way. They don't have to sit there and try to respond to "the market" wether they think the market wants porn or not. They are leaders and innovators and create their own markets. They probably realize that porn is as pernicious and vicious as cocaine in ruining peoples lives. For you that like to sit there and jerk off to your computer all day you will realize this one day. Apple is not perfect. In fact I'm pretty pissed off that I had to reinstall OS X twice in the last 6 months because my system completely seized up - but I appreciate them taking a moral stand. They are in business to make money like everyone else, but they seem to want to help elevate society, not facilitate it's decline into the gutter. Porn is destructive and has no value to humanity whatsoever. I invite anyone to seriously research the matter.
He's possessed!
duh!
Who cares? Anyone with access to the internets thing can get endless free porn 24/7/365. Even on the The iPhone. It has one of those web browser things. You can stare at all the fun-sized porn your poor eyes can handle right there on the bus to your lousy temp job. Who needs an App for porn? What? Someone update Custer's Revenge for the iPhone?
That the internet was built on porn.
Apple has not learned their lesson from the years when they were irrelevant.
MiKandi
No Pr0n:Betamax, Laserdisc, Afghanistan, iPad,
Pr0n: VHS, DVD, Las Vegas, Google Android
Thank's for the tip Mr. Jobs!
In other news, Android phone sales have increased by 4000%.
I think it's better worded like this:
'After being asked about the App Store's recent ban on "freedom to use your property as you see fit," Steve Jobs responded,
He continued, "I'm not sure why people phrase it as 'using their property,' when they're insisting that we put apps in the Apple iPhone App Store that we don't want there. It's almost like they don't want Apple to have the freedom to use Apple's property, servers, bandwidth, and store as we see fit. Would they go to Best Buy and insist that their home arts and crafts projects get put on Best Buy's shelves, and would they complain about Best Buy banning freedom if they didn't agree?"
If you want porn on your iPhone, you can go to a porn website, you can rip a porn DVD, you can upload a gallery up porn photos, etc. You can even write a porn app and install it yourself, email it to friends for them to install, or put it up on your own website for purchase. The only thing Apple's saying no to is carrying a porn app in their store. Why are you insisting that a property owner - Apple - carry stuff in their store that they don't want there? Are you opposed to people's freedom to use their property as they see fit?
Slashdot is seriously out of touch with reality regarding Apple. The company just posted yesterday their highest non-holiday profit quarter ever (90% year-over-year increase in profit). iPhone sales were up 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock is soaring right now This is all due to Apple's complete control over the iPhone. So does the lack of hardcore adult content hurt the iPhone sales? No, it does not. Steve Jobs is absolutely right.
Safari has all the porn you can ever want. Pornhub has a iPhone compatible version of their site. Would you like to know more?
Something to the effect of "And the inferior multitouch support won't bother you nearly as much if you are always using your phone one-handed..."
I can pinch to zoom one handed, but sometimes I wish I had a simple + / - for zoom like the browser on Android does.
#!/
Apple better discontinue Safari for iPhone if they don't want porn.
mobile.pornhub.com FTW!
Is also Steve Jobs' Porn; and you can get it for your iPhone!
Apple should be more concered with Kids spending $1000 on addictive games than with porn.
If a game can allow a user to spend Real money to play it, then that should be investigated as to whether it is safe or not.
While Porn may not be 'tasteful' or 'reputable'... it is at least safe.
Jobs has written off the entire readership of slashdot as a target market for the iPhone.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Why doesn't Steve remove the vibrate function from the iPhone? Lots of Asian girls end up in the hospital because they stuck one up their snatch to enjoy the Apple "Experience" and then can't remove it.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
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.
Is he referring to the internet?
*scrolls through the Android market*
I'm confused, so where's this porn?
You also said the App Store had more apps than the android market, but I see more choice in Android, there are several alternative browsers for example?
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Sounds like he is speaking from personall experience - what he keeps and android phone tucked under his pillow :}
The normal apps on the iPhone and iPad are quite picky about what video formats and encodings they accept. There are some third party players that will play more kinds of video content. But, of course, Apple can at any time just disallow anything other than their own video players plus content that they approve. And as recent decisions by Apple show, they have no qualms about screwing existing developers.
kthxbye
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
Jobs was completely accurate. You just have to realize he defines 'porn' as any non-Apple item. It's part of his reality distortion field. Same one that causes him to come up with a logo that says: Bite me.
you are the ceo of a manufacturing company. your job is to deliver products to your customers and allow THEM to choose what to do and what not to do on your product. you should provide the means for parents to block certain apps, but do not block the apps for the parents yourself, by your own self justification.
you are not the shepherd of apple flock to herd them like they were goats. you are the ceo of the company that produces products for them.
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Anybody care to provide the complete address for Apple HQ? I plan to send back my fully functional iPhone 3G in it's box with this note: To Mr. Steve Jobs. Enough is enough, fuck you and your moral responsibilities! I've bought my last Apple product. Sincerely, ...
English is not my native language so if I did something wrong grammatically I'd appreciate any help, I want this to be flawless.
Didn't VHS win out over Betamax partly because the porn industry adopted VHS after they were "discouraged" from Betamax by Sony. Seems this "urban legend" has never been firmly validated or refuted, but it's persistence might server as a warning to Jobs. I doubt the I-Phone or I-Pad will stem the tide of porn providers, however, as those folks will just become more clever.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
I have a Motorola Milestone, so as soon as I saw this , I thought "Hey, I didn't see any porn on there! What's Steve talking about?!?!?" and then spent the next 20 minutes trying to find porn in the app store. Funny thing is that you have to specifically do a search for porn. It doesn't show up in any of the major entertainment or whatever categories. You won't find it unless you look really hard. And then you have to pay. Even more interesting is that most of the apps have something to do with some Japanese girls and each one costs 99 Yen.
I guess what I'm saying is that Steve must be really worried about Android taking over the iPhone market, because surfing the net is a much easier way to get porn than anything in the Android app store. And surfing the net is free.
J
I'd never believe this if I didn't read it here: Steve Jobs is becoming a neo con!
Walmart doesn't have a near monopoly. I can buy physical DVDs and books at lots of places. I can mail-order them.
Apple does have a near-monopoly: many mobile apps exist only for the iPhone, a lot of content is only available online on iTunes, and a lot of books are only available online on Kindle or iBooks. Just like with Windows, it doesn't matter how badly the platform sucks (and it does), more and more, you don't have a choice.
Fortunately, Android is addressing this and it is starting to get enough traction to become a serious alternative. But we're going to continue to complain and hold Apple's feet to the fire until this situation is fixed, either because Apple becomes irrelevant, or because they change.
but I have no idea why someone would use there phone to view pornography as opposed to, say, a home computer.
Also the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition? Really? When did this become pornography?
-1 TMI
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
If someone wanted to go religious, Matthew 5:28 would probably be a better one:
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."
--Chag
On the other hand, I have a moral responsibility to keep my money away from Apple.
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Smut-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/6AF3E9A2451F2F0548256A7D0025920C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pva35TFiBfI
I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that I suppose. It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days I have here a march for mine. It's called...
Steve Job, today's "moral apostle" on the iPhone, is the same hypocritical fuck who fathered a girl and denied it, yet proclaims his moral superiority to the rest of us because of porn? Steve Jobs doesn't give a flying fuck about porn. It's just more pandering to the Disney crowd. There's nothing wrong with that, but it would be nice if he had the balls to admit it.
I saw the suspicious looking link and assumed it was some sort of shock site like tubgirl or goatse. Imagine my horror when I clicked it and found it went to some boring financial site about investment strategies or some crap like that! Do not click!!!!
After all, if it wasn't for the Porn industry, VCR's wouldn't of take off like it did, and of course, we all know it helps the internet get popular.
Seems to me like enough peeps are into porn that it can change markets.
Be seeing you...
Folks who want {insert user-driven functionality here} can buy an Android phone. When you buy something from Apple, Apple owns it.
Can you zoom in real life with only 2 fingers?
Well, if I "pinch" the boobs, they do move further away...
Bow-ties are cool.
I gotta jailbreak my phone that I bought just so a) I can put the music on it that I want,
Huh? Is the iphone banning heavy metal now or something??
I always knew my Droid was the right choice!
Tony Jeffries
How about not giving your child an Iphone??
Actually... it's more like saying that the person who built your house (that YOU own) says that he doesn't want OJ Simpson in the house that YOU own. And actively stops you from having him as a guest.
No, it would be like the person who built your house not offering to call OJ for you to come over. You are still free to invite OJ over yourself.
Except OJ demands a fee for his appearances - and the person who built your house is doing everything they can to stop OJ from offering you the chance to pay his appearance fee and have him come over... Because OJ doesn't know you personally and knows you only want him over because he's famous...
And then the person who built your house has a deal going with Dennis Rodman and tries to encourage you to have him come over instead.
Bow-ties are cool.
that the most lucrative Iphone-a-pad app will the
open market exchange for dead peoples organs.
get your new liver today. drink or f3ck. you chose.
Ahem. T-Mobile. I, uh, accidentally hit the Verizon key on my keyboard. Because....it's an iPad. That's it. That's the ticket.
The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is what punches workers in the nuts.
That's probably next. No, it's just that the iPhone's iTunes crap means I can't sync up between multiple computers. So I have tunes at work I can't put on my iPhone unless I jailbreak it. What's even more irritating is that this is true for photos and images too - or at least it was the last time I tried it. Why can't I even sync photos between multiple computers? That shouldn't violate the MIAA's violation of me. But Jobs thinks I shouldn't need to, so it doesn't matter. Grrr.....
The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is what punches workers in the nuts.
I am a fan of Apple, but less and less often lately when Steve Jobs does his Steve Ballmer imitation and acts like a total JACKASS! Android, and Linux more specifically, do stand for freedom which is why I wouldn't buy an iPhone even if I could afford the price of such elitist nonsense. Oh and yes, I do have an Android phone!
Like the inimitable Groucho Marx, I would never join a club that would have me as a member.
Do No Porn!
Slashdot is seriously out of touch with reality regarding Apple. The company just posted yesterday their highest non-holiday profit quarter ever (90% year-over-year increase in profit). iPhone sales were up 130% year-over-year. AAPL stock is soaring right now
This is all due to Apple's complete control over the iPhone. So does the lack of hardcore adult content hurt the iPhone sales? No, it does not. Steve Jobs is absolutely right.
Hold on, now - when did this become all about what's best for Apple?
The problem here is that, while Apple's approach works well for them, it's an approach that frustrates would-be developers for the platform and, I imagine, doesn't please a lot of Apple's audience, either. The question isn't whether what Apple's doing is reasonable or advantageous in a business sense or whatever - it's whether we, as potential customers of Apple are OK with this.
Apple could be raking in enough money to buy Canada for all I care - it doesn't change the fact that I personally find the restrictions of their iPhone platform unacceptable - both as a developer and a user.
Bow-ties are cool.
Everyone has their threshold. Jobs can, and should, set a threshold for his company. You can still get all the porn you want by simply browsing the web.
Who the hell buys their 10-year-old a $500 phone?
We swear Safari won't let you surf porn (of non-existent species of fungi).
Oh, come on, you think, even in the face of "rule 34" that there's no porn of non-existent species of fungi on the web? I mean, are you really sure? I'd like to mention something that I think might force you to rethink that...
"Pokemon porn"
Now, if you want to get picky, it's not entirely accurate to call something like Parasect a "fungus" - it's half-bug, after all - and it wouldn't be the most popular choice for porn I imagine (no tentacles, etc. - though it can induce paralysis) - but it's a very real possibility and I think it hits very close to the mark, too.
Bow-ties are cool.
A sociopath taking a moral position? Interesting indeed.
You know, there are a lot of apple fanbois here on /. - but no one sucks Steve Jobs' dick more than you.
Your comment history is really some funny read. http://slashdot.org/~MobileTatsu-NJG/comments
Idiot...
How, exactly? Apple make some nice gear, but unlike attractiveness and ease-of-use, freedom is not an Apple priority. The Apple OSs on their computers and phones, and the hardware they run on, are proprietary and strictly controlled by Apple. How has that generated more freedom than the open source Linux and Android platforms?
Thanks Steve, I will get my porn on an Android and not five you one thin dime in the process.
(the start of the fall of Apple has begun)...
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Apple allows "shake the baby" iPhone app and gets bad press. Apple changes, restricts their store and removes porn and they also get bad press. What can they do?
I'm taking Jobs up on his advice, and have finally decided on the smart phone for me -- a Nexus One. I'd been leaning that way anyhow, but this sealed the deal.
Not that I want to use it for porn (I don't -- my desktop machine is far more conveniently placed for fapping), but that I don't want someone else to tell me what I can or cannot have available on my device. Particularly not someone or some company who decides to be the Morals Police.
Steve's turning his back to entire family of Jobs employed in the porn industry!
(Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, and last but not least RIM Jobs)
BTW - if Research In Motion is ever taken over, there will be question if RIM-jobs will be saved ;-)
it's about scaring parents that there kids are downloading porn with android devices.
A new low for Steve.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
it was on a an app and the girl was topless and made headlines all over. I think that's why they removed most of these apps, they don't want the burden of making sure every picture there is of a person who is of legal age, so I think that's why they kept things like playboy and such.
Branding.
But make sure you only buy fart apps here....
I'm glad that Apple is now officially a corporation with morals. I take it that Mr Jobs will announce a pull-out from China tomorrow?
The whole thing reminds me of Blockbuster Video and their somewhat arbitrary "family friendly" policies impacting how movies get made. Now Blockbuster is getting their asses handed to them by competitors with more choice and/or convenience(Netflix, Redbox), and I wouldn't be too surprised if Apple found themselves in the same boat in a few years.
(insert witty/esoteric/dumb quote here)
Sony smothered Betamax by blocking porn. Sony done this to protect its family friendly image. Steve Jobs is now doing the same thing - due to shareholdings with Apple and Disney/Pixar. So, this one move of blocking porn could be enough to substantially damage Apple.
If you're a pornographer, this sends a clear signal that you should avoid the Apple iPhone. If you're a liberated individual, this also sends a clear signal that you should avoid the Apple iPhone. The difference in sales will be small but cumulative until less restricted gadgets prevail.
Unfortunately, stage two is more pervasive. After Sony lost one format war, it devised and won almost every subsequent format. Sony 3.5 inch disks overwon 3 inch disks which were common in Japan. Sony and Philips CDs overwon tapes. Sony (and others) DVD overwon video tape. Yes, Sony had a few dubious formats along the way but every successful format has gained significant royalties for Sony.
Where's your source, Luke?
Will do, Jobs!
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
I am sure the number of people who share my disdain for Apple's bringing Jobs back just jumped 10 fold!
-Oz
...Except for that whole multi-billion-dollar anti-trust-lawsuit crush-Netscape-Navigator thing...
No. The key words in this case are "just about".
You can download porn, your children can download porn ; but Jobs forgot the worst: *Terrorists can download porn on Android!*
Profit figures like that may impress you, they are indeed uncommon. But we've all seen stock fall that quickly. If the stock doesn't fall back again then that will impress me. The seeds of the fall as always are in the success. It's easy to get market share when you've got little to begin with.
People are buying these products as fashion accessories. Many ipads have been bought in UK, the damn things haven't hit the shops yet. So no one is buying based on need or experience..
Fashions change.
Particularly when utility problems become obvious..
Crocs were everywhere 2 years ago, but they tear your feet up.
Toyotas seemed unstoppable, until they seemed unstoppable.
The Ip* are no different. We all know the drawbacks I'm not going to list them here. absent flash will be more obvious on the ipad.
Even if the OS updates eventually seem to add functionality that hackers have had for years. Apart from an app to run code.
That doesn't cover the point of the OP.
Steve Jobs is a: /b/
puritanical bigot - porn is no good for you so you can't have it.
hypocrite - playboy etc
retard - use a browser like people normally do and you get all the porn you want
Apple & morals? That's a joke. They have no problem employing sweatshop labor overseas and closing US manufacturing plants to save money. Steve's a dick. If he's so concerned about porn, why doesn't Mac OS X have a porn-blocker built in? Corporate censorship is still censorship.
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See subject above
Per subject-line above: Why? Because of this -
"I love it, apparently some trolling AC subscribed to my newsletter and is reading my every comment and needs to reply to all of them multiple times even. Excellent, next thing I know I have my own TV news station." - by roman_mir (125474) on Tuesday April 20, @10:58AM (#31910300) Homepage
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240 it would appear that a quote has you shown trolling others, first no less, right in that url I just put up.
Also, per my subject-line above: Face the music there in that URL link then. If you don't then everyone knows your skills & knowledge in the field of computing is shockingly limited, and also that you screwed up badly also by avoiding "facing the music" in that url there.
If you do face the music, then your show's going to have to be a comedy is my guess because it's going to be funny watching you "eat your own words" roman_mir in that url I put up here, because you are just another dime a dozen "web developer" (that's a joke) and not truly a computer programmer is all.
"I love it, apparently some trolling AC subscribed to my newsletter and is reading my every comment and needs to reply to all of them multiple times even. Excellent, next thing I know I have my own TV news station." - by roman_mir (125474) on Tuesday April 20, @10:58AM (#31910300) Homepage
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240 it would appear that a quote has you shown trolling others, first no less, right in that url I just put up (first of all).
Secondly also, per my subject-line above: Face the music there in that URL link then. If you don't then everyone knows your skills & knowledge in the field of computing is shockingly limited, and also that you screwed up badly also by avoiding "facing the music" in that url there.
If you do face the music, then your show's going to have to be a comedy is my guess because it's going to be funny watching you "eat your own words" (flavored with the 'bitter taste of defeat' and worst of all, your defeating yourself no less in your mistakes and your failing to answer up to them also), roman_mir, in that url I put up here, because you are just another dime a dozen "web developer" (that's a joke) and not truly a computer programmer is all.
"I love it, apparently some trolling AC subscribed to my newsletter and is reading my every comment and needs to reply to all of them multiple times even. Excellent, next thing I know I have my own TV news station." - by roman_mir (125474) on Tuesday April 20, @10:58AM (#31910300) Homepage
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240 it would appear that a quote has you shown trolling others, first no less, right in that url I just put up (first of all).
Secondly/also, per my subject-line above: Face the music there in that URL link then.
If you don't then everyone knows your skills & knowledge in the field of computing is shockingly limited, and also that you screwed up badly also by avoiding "facing the music" in that url there.
If you do face the music, then your show's going to have to be a comedy is my guess because it's going to be funny watching you "eat your own words" (flavored with the 'bitter taste of defeat' and worst of all, your defeating yourself no less in your mistakes and your failing to answer up to them also), roman_mir, in that url I put up here.
You are just another dime a dozen "web developer" (that's a joke) and not truly a computer programmer is all.
Hey, fan of my comments, the troll, answer to this message too.
You can't handle the truth.
Porn stars get paid by a third party to fuck someone else. Makes me wonder why we haven't seen a make-your-own-porn establishment (aka brothel) open up in Los Angeles yet, where all the "talent" is (aka ran-away-from-home-out-of-money-wishful-starlets)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240 It's obvious why you refuse to face the music there Roman_Mir. You only showed that you are at best, a mere "programmer wannabe" webpage maker, but certainly no serious programmer. I have to say that, based on your refusal to answer the questions asked of you in that url I posted above here now where you trolled someone who put you in your place and at the same time, exposed you as nothing more than another "wannabe" in computing.
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240 ROTFLMAO (Roman_Mir shows his "running speed" as he avoids answering a question that exposes him as a big mouthed troll who has to now eat his own words for his trolling others). Roman_Mir obviously isn't much of a programmer (webpage maker & nothing more), but he certainly shows his mettle at RUNNING from questions he cannot answer (or if he were to answer them, he'd only be further shown as a loud mouthed and incorrect TROLL, and also as nothing much in terms of his comp. sci. skills as well). A "lose-lose", for Roman WANNABE, the "track star", as he runs away from answering up to his own trolling words (how do those words taste as you have to now eat them, Roman_Mir? Flavored with the "bitter taste of defeat" (your defeating yourself no less, lol))?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1626460&cid=31939440 LMAO: You shouldn't have opened your mouth & trolled others, as you did here http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1622780&cid=31904240 and you couldn't back up your b.s., and you had to RUN (earning you "All-American TROLL" status, lol!), and simply because you're not educated or skilled enough to do so, by refuting what was written you in reply, you mere webpage boy! Roman_Mir: A bad credit risk with his big trolling mouth writing checks his trolling mouth cannot ca$h, lmao.
My comment had several implications. For one, you'll never be able to explain to a sociopath why a person can act altruistically. They don't understand morals or values that exist outside of "benefit myself." Attempting to analyze morals and values objectively -- like a sociopath does -- and ignore some "built-in" human elements, you'll never understand the reasoning. A pscyhologist can better explain how a human develops morals and values (when they are not sociopaths) and how they might come out differently than the ones that someone has invented for himself in the throes of sexual frustration, overanalyzation, nihilism, lonliness, etc.
A psychologist could also better explain the sexual maturity stages of children, and why viewing porn has a greater negative effect on children (and adults, for that matter). Any slashdotter could state the same here, but you wouldn't believe it. He could go on to explain the possible negative effects of viewing violence as well, and the implications of blocking violence from the mind of a child -- and then suggest to you why so many people are wired to accept one's depiction, yet abhor the other.
While slashdotters may dabble in psychology, read up on it, monitor the studies, take some college courses, etc -- psychologists actually do this stuff, and can explain things much better on the grounds that you will understand them -- like a physicist explaining quarks to someone who doesn't believe in them vs. a guy who read "Universe in a Nutshell" trying to do the same.
You've already had the reasoning explained to you a hundred times by the unprofessional -- so either you're the unreasonable one or you need a professional to explain it to you.
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
film at 11
.....and an ass, for mentioning the kiddies. So, having i-thing makes you (this is just from the last week):
a:) Alpha male whom women like more
b:) Morally sound, "think for the kiddies", responsible citizen
Up until this news came out, I did not care about Apple likes/dislikes at all. But this man is yet another apparently brilliant mind that succumbs to the idiocy of our civilization. Apparently for money and power. Is that a news to anyone anymore?
As a small retribution I crafted (or re-invented) this little motto today:
"Apple fans masturbate when they look, show or touch their mp3 players. I masturbate when I listen to mine."
Disclaimer: My only priority in mobile sounds is quality - I use one of the most audiophile player/headphones combos available and do not compress beyond flac. So the second part of the motto is accurate, the first one is speculative.
What Steve Jobs is recommending is to get an Android phone because it can do more then the Apple product. The Adroid lets you the user chose what it is you want to see and the apps you want to install, without being constrained by someone's idiosyncrasies. Thanks SJ for the strong advice.
Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone
Yes that is what he said.
But if you took that literally, it would in fact mean yanking Safari or trying some kind of futile content filtering.
Since Apple has not done that, nor does it show any signs it will do that, it's quite obvious Jobs was talking about porn in applications, not porn in general. At any rate the difference is moot since you can in fact load porn on an iPhone or iPad via the browser, and will continue to be able to do so regardless of the exact meaning of his words.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That sucks. I don't have that problem with any iPod I've used, including the touch -- not sure why it would be happening with the iphone.
My customers pay me to screw them.
So he is a prostitute?
In any larger city's gay community you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a gay porn performer, past or present.
The iPhone can't be switched to "Disk mode", or whatever it is where you can drag and drop music onto it. It only functions in "Managed/sync mode", where you have to select playlists or criteria of songs to sync to the phone. This also means that since that particular iTunes library is managing those playlists, you can't plug it into another PC with iTunes and drag and drop (or copy a playlist...say a new CD you bought over lunch or borrowed from a coworker and ripped at work) to your phone.
aaaand...whee!
You gotta love the balls on this guy!
(On BOTH of these guys!)
((But you're only gunna see 'em on an Android!))
(((Love from afar... alas! The very worst kind.)))
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