Does The Cinemax App Violate Apple’s No Porn Rules?

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HBO owned Cinemax has a rather sordid history of showing softcore porn and plentiful nudity late at night on their cable channel, but their new iOS appĀ has raised some question about Apple's censorship rules. The app requires you to be an active subscriber to the channel, at which point you can … [Read more...]

Why Does Apple Censor The App Store?

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Apple will censor the bejeezus out of everything in the app store. Sometimes, this is seen as okay (racism, hate speech, etc), and sometimes it really isn't (classic literature, modern literature, political discontent), but what it boils down to is that this is Apple's ecosystem, and as much as you … [Read more...]

Jobs Says People Who Want Porn Can Go Android

Another entry into the vault of pithy emails from Steve Jobs. Matthew Browning wrote complaining of Apple being the moral judge for their app store: Steve, I was converted to Apple products with the announcement of the iPhone 3G. (My friends have been trying to convince me for years.) Since then … [Read more...]