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The iPad Will Get Playboy In March

Posted by samzenpus on from the clean-the-screen dept.

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.'"

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  1. Quick, the Ink Will Dry While He's Sick! by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    *an emaciated Steve Jobs returns from medical leave*
    Lord Jobs: Why is there porn on my iPad, Captain Cook?!
    Tim Cook: Uh, well, you see, the uh, engineers they ... ack! uck!
    *Jobs holds up his fingers pinched together*
    Lord Jobs: You have failed me for the last time, Captain.

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  2. I only want to subscribe.... by surfdaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for the articles.

    1. Re:I only want to subscribe.... by MikeDirnt69 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can see a naked chick whenever I want

      So what the hell are you doing here?

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    2. Re:I only want to subscribe.... by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can see a naked chick whenever I want

      So what the hell are you doing here?

      Looking at all the naked chicks. What? You can't see them? Go to your preferences and click the "Format stories as ASCII naked chicks" checkbox.

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    3. Re:I only want to subscribe.... by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

      Must be for premium members only, darn.

      Actually, so as not to offend either of Slashdot's female readers, the site has implemented a gender check policy. You just have to verify that you are male by sending an email from the account linked to your Slashdot account with the phrase "I like porn!" in the subject and "Show me the naked chicks!" in the body to daddypants@slashdot.org. Then you will see the "Format Stories as ASCII naked chicks" checkbox on your preferences page.

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    4. Re:I only want to subscribe.... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...for the articles.

      Why else would an Apple fan want Playboy?

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  3. Playboy isn't Porn by Old97 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Playboy isn't Porn by LordNacho · · Score: 4

      Hmm, how do I delete this strange half-typed thing? It honestly didn't look like this when I hit submit...

    2. Re:Playboy isn't Porn by Ephemeriis · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you think Playboy is porn, you really need to get out of the basement. Playboy is to porn what Disneyworld is to authenticity.

      I'm curious to hear what your definition of porn is. And with that where you live so I can get an idea of whether your standards are close to your communities standards. As there is no definitive statement as to what constitutes porn that could be applied globally.

      Granted, I haven't looked at Playboy in years... So it may have changed dramatically. But last time I looked I would not have called it pornography.

      Sure, there's some pictures of naked women in there, and they're sure to titillate your average pubescent male...

      But there's more text to the magazine than images. Substantially more text. And most of it is actually decent stuff. Some interesting articles and interviews and whatnot. I suspect that Playboy could actually survive as a magazine even if it didn't have nude photos. Well, maybe not so much these days with the web and all... Any print publication is suffering these days... But you know what I mean.

      As for the images themselves, they were far too "tasteful" for my tastes. Plenty of breasts... 3/4 shots... Maybe a glimpse of pubic hair here or there... But that's about it. Your average art gallery has images substantially more pornographic than a Playboy magazine.

      If I had to label Playboy, I'd call it "erotica" at best. Certainly not pornography.

      Anyone who really thinks Playboy is pornography just needs to visit Google Images or Google Videos with Safe Search turned off to have their horizons dramatically broadened.

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    3. Re:Playboy isn't Porn by egomaniac · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm curious to hear what your definition of porn is.

      The best definition I've heard of it so far is "stuff you lose interest in looking at after you're done masturbating."

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    4. Re:Playboy isn't Porn by Stregano · · Score: 5, Funny

      Playboy is when I want to whack off and feel classy

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    5. Re:Playboy isn't Porn by ginbot462 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      A while ago, I might have thought same thing (concerning text in Playboy), but they have moved more towards FHM/Maxim. I would say most magazines are like this now (excluding something like Economist). I picked up a March 1984 Popular Science at antique/curios shop; I forgot how much writing there use to be in magazines, and less dumbed down. In Popular Science's defense, they seem to have stayed at a similar level comparing this 1984 issue to say the 2007 iClone issue.

      See for yourself:
      Mini Mac
      iClone

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    6. Re:Playboy isn't Porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Premature posting. That's okay. It happens to all guys now and then.

  4. Hot Damn. by Petersko · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's damned hard to masturbate while trying to trying to balance a netbook. The iPad is the right tool for the job.

  5. Jobs knows it when he sees it by PraiseBob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. I Wish America Hated Censorship by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:I Wish America Hated Censorship by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Actually, I highly support social censorship as opposed to government enforced censorship.

      I find the lack of respect for individual choice reflected by such censorship deeply saddening. Individuals should be given the right to make their own choices, even if the majority disagrees. That belief is the foundation of the concept of "freedom" which is often mentioned in political speeches but not valued by society, yourself included apparently.

      But this power is all we need to control corporations. We vote every day with the power of our dollar.

      This isn't really true, since corporations can legally lobby congress and spend money on media to get their puppets elected. Those politicians then pass laws that restrict our choices. When there is only one or two companies you can buy a needed service from, and both use the same behavior, your voting with your dollar is useless; your strategy wholly impotent. We voted with our dollars against the incompetent expensive mess that is domestic car manufacture, look how well that worked out.

  7. Reminds me of a joke by Weaselmancer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.
  8. Playboy?? by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Funny

    You think with a name like iPad they would serve up Playgirl

    /rimshot

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  9. App? by jorisk · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.