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No Playboy App For iPad, After All
tsamsoniw writes "The rumors that a Playboy app would appear in the Apple App Store were greatly exaggerated. Playboy plans to offer an online service through which subscribers can access past and current issues of the nudie mag — and per Playboy, it will be accessible via Safari and support iPad features (whatever that means). But if Playboy does come out with a native app for iPad, all the nudity will be censored. That should be just fine for the legions of people who indeed read the magazine for the articles. This really shouldn't be a surprise, though: If Apple insists on 'protecting' users of its high-priced gear from pixelated naughty bits in a graphic-novel version of classic literature, it certainly won't let users access the full monty. It's a shame, though: If Apple's customers want access to that sort of content, Apple should allow them to get at it via a native app instead of suffering a potentially buggier, less secure browser-based experience."
Your whole argument is that the iPad is marketed as being a multipurpose device (and it is, in fact, an excellent multipurpose device), and games consoles aren't? Apparently you haven't seen the end of all PS3 ads that say "It only does everything." What's most humorous is that your defense of the consoles demonstrate the point that the situation on consoles are far worse than the situation on iOS.
The iPad is marketed to do anything you want to do on a laptop and fails at that goal and is naturally taking backlash because of it.
Only amongst an extremely insignificant subset of geeks. Apple sold 15 million iPads last year. You wanna know why? Because normal people don't give a shit about all the things that make you hate Apple's products.
While I do admit I haven't heard of any times Apple has remotely deleted Apps (yet),
For one very good reason: they haven't. Google, on the other hand, actually has used their kill switch on Android.
they have admitted that they built in a back door in iOS that will allow them to do just that.
You know why they admitted it? Because it's not some scary evil thing. In fact, it's there for a very good reason. If an app gets through the App Store that turns out to be malware, Apple can kill it.