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The iPad Will Get Playboy In March
Stoobalou writes "Playboy boss Hugh Hefner has confirmed that — despite Steve Jobs' protestations that Apple is pure and Android is for porn — an app for browsing uncensored back issues of Playboy is to launch later this year on the iPad. The news, which is likely to generate significantly more buzz for Apple's popular tablet as a publishing device than Rupert Murdoch's delayed digital newspaper The Daily, comes courtesy of Hefner's Twitter stream, in which he proclaimed: 'Big news! Playboy — both old & new — will be available on [the] iPad beginning in March.'"
*an emaciated Steve Jobs returns from medical leave* ... ack! uck!
Lord Jobs: Why is there porn on my iPad, Captain Cook?!
Tim Cook: Uh, well, you see, the uh, engineers they
*Jobs holds up his fingers pinched together*
Lord Jobs: You have failed me for the last time, Captain.
My work here is dung.
...for the articles.
If you think Playboy is porn, you really need to get out of the basement. Playboy is to porn what Disneyworld is to authenticity.
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It's damned hard to masturbate while trying to trying to balance a netbook. The iPad is the right tool for the job.
looks like it's time to buy an ipad... for the articles...
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Not only will the iPad's screen be great for viewing the pages of Playboy, it's easy to clean up afterwards!
Maybe you should tell that to the iphone app developers that got kicked out of the App store for being "porn" despite only showing girls in bikinis.
I really wish Americans valued the freedom of others to make personal choices, even if those choices are ones they wish others would not make. I really wish there were more people that hated white power literature, but would raise hell when big companies presumed to refuse to let them make an individual choice about buying it or not. I really wish it wasn't good business for Apple, Amazon, Walmart, etc. to censor and limit the content they sell in order to cater to busybodies that don't want other people to have the opportunity to make choices the majority does not like. I wish we were living in the freedom loving, individual rights valuing country a subset of our founding fathers envisioned.
It's great that people have decided playboy isn't so bad or something, but I don't really care. I wish, instead, people were pressuring Apple to become common carriers of content, dedicated to being neutral and letting users choose for themselves.
So I make clean apps that they ban and then they allow this?
They banned my apps that allow people to share *moderated* clean photos (mostly of peoples faces). WHY? Because children's pictures were in it!
I also had to appeal to get them to allow my other photo app with clean photos:
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So I had to completely redo my website and objectives but, hey!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
If you use someone else's iPad and see this app. Set down the iPad and wash your hands well.
One day with Jobs away, and look what happens!
Likely he hasn't even talked to Apple about it. But now that he's made the announcement, if Apple rejects the app, they look like the bad guys. Hefner may be a creep, but anyone who can get tens of women to service him each night is no idiot.
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That is all
Next thing you know, they will allow us to use curse language.
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Winston Churchill and a socialite at a party:
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose we would have to discuss terms, of course...
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.
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rediculous.
if I can get the articles-only version.
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Its the only explanation as to why swim suite catalogs are verboten but Play Boy is OK.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I only look at airbrushed pussy
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You think with a name like iPad they would serve up Playgirl
/rimshot
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I wonder what the response to the previous poll would look like now ?
please mod parent up - as that is truly the crux in this story.
It doesn't matter what GP poster believes is porn, or what you - the reader - believe is porn, or what -I- believe is porn. What matters is Apple's definition of porn (and related terms) that have lead to apps which just displayed pictures of girls in bikini or lingerie or whatever being rejected or pulled.
The added value of those apps may be questionable (I guess they exist for people who can't open the browser and look for bikini-clad girls that way), but they should be held to the same criteria as any Playboy app.
If, and this is a big if, the Playboy app does indeed launch with pictures of girls in bikini or even less clothing, without a app policy change*, then those app developers have every right to go bitchslap Apple.
* If there will be a policy change it would seem that Playboy would be at an advantage by having a headstart by knowing this change would come ahead of time, most likely due to discussion between them and those responsible at Apple.
In either case Apple would apparently be giving Playboy preferential treatment. Which wouldn't be -entirely- surprising, given Apple's recent re-iteration that they're not fond of apps from publishers that simply link people to the online content where the user then has to pay for the subscription - thus skirting Apple's desire to take a good chunk of advertising income / subscription fees by running this through their infrastructure.
Not big enough for Elaine Reynolds or Cynthia Myers.
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Why, whoever heard of such a thing? Maybe only the people who ever clicked on the Safari button and googled for "iphone porn."
For anyone whose formative years occurred before the internet or BBS era, I'm sure it must seem strange to think that the general reaction of young men to playboy would be "yawn, quaint." And then the question is whether the quaintness is in the nature of the content or in actually paying for it.
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Sell the spice to CHOAM
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I'm waiting for Club International. (sarcasm intended)
Can my karma get any worse than bad? Let's find out!
Boy, there are 4-5 instances of pure troll isolate in the summary. Sad.
While the article talks about an 'app' for the iPad, Hugh never wrote about an app. To be more precise he wrote "Big news! Playboy--both old & new--will be available on iPad beginning in March." http://twitter.com/#hughhefner/status/27551318994325504
In later tweets he refers to 'Playboy on iPad', again without the word 'app'.
Based on earlier rumors we will either see a new Magazine store for the iPad (with subscriptions and a different policy) or Hugh is just making headlines by announcing a plain old HTML version optimized for iPad.
Why is there a need for a new app for view a particular magazine?
If I subscribe to the paper version of Playboy, I don't need to get a new mailbox.
Shouldn't there be one app for viewing periodicals, and you just add a magazine or newspaper to a subscription list in that app?
For folks who use the iPad as an eReader, do you need to install a separate app for each book?
OK. We are Internet people. 99% of us have seen the worst porn there is out there floating around the net. By comparison I would call playboy art not porn. Its nude, Not lude. Their is a big difference.
Just my two cents. Wondered why the android was selling more units. I guess Steve Jobs had it pegged.
--- Always remember. 99.36% of all statistics are inaccurate.
Wait, you're telling me I can get porn on my android phone? Sweet! Why didn't anyone tell me about this earlier.
I'm not sure what Steve was thinking when he said that though. He's probably not really sick. They just asked him to step down because his big mouth sunk iPhone sales.
When can I get it on the kindle. I only read the articles so the iPad playboy isn't really for me.
I can get Flickr on it now. Flickr has EVERYTHING I would want.
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
Even if its convenient to carry around and buy software, the selection of apps is limited by what someone else thinks is a legitimate use for their device.
Paying top dollar for something Apple asserts ownership rights over in the end is kinda crazy.
Playboy isn't porn. Even Penthouse isn't porn. It's art. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad. You just may lack taste. And the articles are great, of course. Now, about the resolution and zooming in...
Hello, Petra!!!
You think that your app is somehow on a level playing field with Playboy or any other major corporation? Good luck with that.
This.
A google times this.
Apple's behavior should be giving apoplexy to anyone that supports real net neutrality.
If it were up to IBM or Microsoft, there never would have been any google or hotmail or youtube or geocities or facebook or IMDB or twitter or flicker or slashdot or redtube.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Stop pretending that a corporate business decision is the same thing as government censorship--it's a slap in the face to everyone who has ever had to live with actual, honest-to-god (as in "we will lock you up if you say this") censorship.
Stop pretending that a corporate business decision is the same thing as government censorship
Stop making straw man arguments. You're conflating the two, not I. I use the term "censorship" i it's general meaning, not in it's legalese meaning. I never once mentioned any legal requirements, violations of the constitution, or calls to legal action, just my observations about our countries values with regard to personal choice.
...released one month before Playboy appears on the iPad in order to explain to the Apple geeks what all those bits on a lady actually do.
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tends be an enormous malware vector. I wouldn't be surprised if Playboy's admission to the app store has more to do with Playboy's reputability and accountability as opposed to any softening on morality issues.
The App Store may not allow you to distribute porn inside your app, but there certainly are a lot of apps that cater to porn: "private media managers" and "private browsers" and the like. My own Stash Pro app - http://stash.hedonicsoftware.com/ - combines those two categories and is the #25 top-grossing Utilities app on the iPad (it's now universal and so available on the iPhone/iPod touch as well). Some of that popularity is for people who want a general media manager: the built-in Photos app relies on syncing with your PC to organize, while with Stash you can create album hierarchies, smart albums, etc right on the device. But a large percentage of the audience is certainly using it for porn. Apple has even featured new releases in the "New & Notable" area of iTunes before, so while they don't allow you to come right out and say you're peddling porn, they may not be as prude as people think.
That is sad. I really was happy with Apples decision to keep the platform clean from material that is degrading. Well, Apple may lose points in my book.
I'll bet the average iPad owner get laid more often than the average slashdot poster.
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Aha, a paradox! As someone who is clearly and iPad owner who also posts on Slashdot, how much nookie do YOU get then???
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Playboy getting admittance to Apple's Walled Garden of Babylon is all well and good, but I can still see more porn in a few keystrokes than even the most adept iPad user will ever see while using that app.
Steve Job's undisclosed location during his "medical leave". I just really REALLY hope he isn't planning on doing any photo shoots while he is there *shudder*
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At this rate, there will be naked chicks in The Economist by 2014!
http://www.macworld.com/article/157263/2011/01/playboy_ipad.html
To work around Apple's rules, Playboy will offer a Web-based subscription service in March that will give users access to every issue ever published. Readers will access issues through Mobile Safari on the device, rather than an app from the App Store. The company is using Bondi Digital Publishing, which has previously digitized the archives of Playboy and Rolling Stone for digital distribution.
iPad owners would have no interest in Playboy. Give 'em Playgirl.
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All Jobs ever said was that Apple would not distribute content with nudity or pornography. Apple distributes through the Appstore which is why you won't find Apps there.
Apple isn't doing a damn thing about other distribution channels. And hell, this is what they wanted to begin with (web apps over built in apps). Guess what, with a good web app you don't have to pay Apple for distribution rights.
But will it be available for the iphone as well???
This makes it a batchelor iPad.