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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.'"
We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep freedom away from the iPhone.
No, he just wants to keep porn from it, in this case. It's like saying you don't want OJ Simpson in your home, then someone rewords it to say you don't want black people in your home. No, you just don't want OJ Simpson. Black people are OK, except for him (same with white people, and you don't want Bernie Madoff, or whatever).
Apple isn't diametrically opposed to freedom. On the contrary, Apple products have generated more freedom than Linux and Android have, combined.
Yes, you get a small number of additional choices with Android. But for those choices, you give up much more. If you don't value those as much as you value the choices Android offers that iPhone doesn't, go with Android.
But to couch it entirely in terms of freedom is absurd.