“Dudes Who Like Porn” Pwn iPad Ads at WWDC

Nicole Martinelli ()

“Dudes Who Like Porn” Pwn iPad Ads at WWDC

Steve Jobs says the iPad offers “freedom from porn.”

Some dudes say you can put that freedom where the sun don’t shine, Steve.

And to that end, these self-described “dudes” pwned iPad ads around Moscone center where WWDC 2010 is taking place this week.

You can see the video of their pornifying prank here.

They’ve sent a heartfelt (or maybe choose another organ) letter to Steve about it:

“You don’t want people looking at vaginas on a tablet device you named after a feminine hygiene product? Something smells fishy.”

Yuk, yuk. (Or maybe that’s just “yuck.”)

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The images they added weren’t exactly porn, but more the idea of where you’d go to get porn if you were a dude (or chick, let’s be open-minded here) interested in well, you know, some flavor of salacious mobile smut.

Not sure if they were inspired by or in cahoots with the Berlin adbuster we wrote about who pornified an iPad ad in a subway there. More to come.

Via ZDnet

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  • Matt

    I do don’t understand this porn debate. Why does a person need a porn app? Is Safari not enough? Do people buy porn apps for a windows computer? Would someone expect to enter the Apple store in their local mall and buy a beat mag?

  • Gazoobee

    Soooo juvenile.

    Anyone who reaches for that lame feminine hygiene iPad joke should be strung up somewhere.

    If an “iPad” a feminine hygiene product because it has “pad” in the name, then by the same logic, “e-paper” should be the same as toilet paper and we should all titter and giggle when someone pulls out a “steno pad” (in use for like 40 years or more).

  • joh

    Yeah, I’m always wondering where these idiots were when IBM named their notebook line “Thinkpad”. I mean, it actually contains an instruction what to think about. Or were there jokes about it back then? Or today? But then there are not so many jokes about iPad these days, only some latecomers.

  • MacRat

    “dudes” demonstrate why they don’t get dates and need porn.

  • http://www.nimbling.com Herman

    pff. it’s childish to ban it from an app store, to please narrow-minded people that can’t stand other people having fun. C’mon, imagine, multi-touch porn! :) that shit’d be awesome.

    If there’s a demand, a supply, and a way to keep this out of the hands of minors (which is not that hard… c’mon… ) – the only reason I can imagine anyone being opposed to iPad porn is that they’re staunchly allergic to fun… and pleasing scary, meddling people.

  • kkl

    Idiots.

  • http://www.ipadweek.ly/ iPad Weekly

    Absolutely hilarious.

  • trospero

    Any device that has a Web browser has access to unlimited porn. That obviously includes the iPad. Demanding that porn be available from the Apple App store is infantile. Would you walk into Starbucks and get all angry that they don’t sell porn and start making demands??? Same deal: the store is Apple’s and they can stock or not stock anything they want. If you don’t agree with that, then shop elsewhere “dudes”.

  • Porn

    Amateur childish crap

  • douglie

    I don’t know about that, rockettube works just fine on my iPad.

  • lolly.time

    Lifeless wankers are lifeless.

  • petar

    SO COOL!!!!

  • Adam

    I’ve got Zinio which allows me to read magazines on my iPad. But thanks to Apple I can’t read any form of “adult” magazines on it.

  • Alfred

    Does anyone seriously expect the biggest single shareholder of Disney, Mr S Jobs, to be selling porno in his own shop?

    Really?

    Not gonna happen.

  • Mister Bitters

    “Dudes:” Proving, once again, that there is always going to be a segment of the population for which forcible sterilization is a good idea.

    If you want porn on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod, just download all the dirty pics you want and sync them through iTunes. If you have access to Safari, which all iOS devices do, then there is plenty out there on the web for you to act like a moron with.

    I, for one, enjoy having (most of) the porn removed from the App store. I was getting tired of seeing “Tiggole Bitties” and “Wooters!” type apps every time I went looking for something new. I spend more money in the App Store now than I used to because I don’t have to sort through so much garbage.

    One more thing… Before someone starts thinking I’m against porn or some nonsense, I’m not. I have no moral or ethical objection to its existence. From time to time, I even look at it. I just don’t want to be inundated with it every time I go to buy an app for my iPhone or iPad.

  • http://www.chrisburke.ca Chris Burke

    I for one am glad that Steve is doing the no porn thing.. but seriously people.. why fight this.. if you want to be a perv and look at porn on your iPad/iPhone whatever while you walk down the street or sit on the bus next to great grandma.. just open safari.. stop trying to flood the app store with your pervision..

  • Jerry Fisher

    I’m curious about the analogy about some stores or outlets not selling porn, so why should the App Store?

    I think a small detail that gets overlooked is that the App Store is selling a wide range of products to appeal to an even wider buying audience. It is a little disingenuous to cherry pick the argument to support a point of view.

    The App Store should simply have the apps with the appropriate age limits to prevent downloading. They would be in their own category, so people wouldn’t have to look at them if they chose not to and in the end everyone gets what they want.

    As for the argument that children will still get them, that is where parents should be doing their job and actively monitoring what their children are doing on their iPads and iPhones. Any parent that pleads lack of time maybe should rethink giving their children computers of their own if they can’t be involved enough to watch what their children are doing.

  • Gazoobee

    Most porn is boring and hollow
    Most porn is for men only
    Most porn is negative
    Most porn is really about violence and domination not sex

    That being said, I support people’s right to view it *and* I support Apple’s right to not allow it in their store.

  • Appolicious

    quoted: “dudes” demonstrate why they don’t get dates and need porn.

    Exactly.

  • Mezzrow

    *Sigh* People will either seek out porn or not, but keep it to yourselves. It’s information I just don’t need to know.

  • http://ubmbarb.wordpress.com/ Barbara

    I agree with Mister Bitters. I’m so sick of wading through pornish crap that clogged up the list of new items on the App Store. Not that I’m against porn. I’m just over it.

  • bernieT

    So what next? The Obama Administration DoJ will insist that ALL retail stores allow porn to be sold? Even force porn to be sold at toy stores like Toys R Us? Because last time I checked, the Apple App Store is just an online (retail) store. Apple is the owner of the shop. Who the hell is the Government to tell Apple (or any retail store owner, for that matter) that they MUST stock porn on the store shelves?

  • Jake

    Well I thoroughly enjoy porn. Especially the softcore kind with quality photography. And I’m crazy about the gorgeous (and naked) women those images contain.

    I say that as a happily married man with a masters degree in philosophy and classical literature, a good job, beautiful children, and and a healthy respect for the minds and spirits of the women in my life.

    That said, I fully agree that we’re better off without an app store jammed wihh sleazy material. Look, there’s no question there’s demand for a porn app. We all get it.

    But if the bandwidth and persona of the store is overrun with that, imagine how many app developers would default to developing that kind of “where the money is” stuff, instead of the more creative stuff they’ve been turning out.

  • bernieT

    Well…. the point of supporting Apple’s position is simply because Apple is a proprietor of a RETAIL STORE, an online retail shop. No Government should be able to force any shopkeeper to sell and distribute porn against the shopkeeper’s wishes.

    Lots of people on the Net have dabbled in or enjoyed porn. But that’s beside the point. The point is that lobbying to FORCE Apple to sell porn in Apple’s own shops (online store or brick-and-mortal retail) is setting a bad legal precedent. It is no different than the Obama Administration forcefully telling Toys R Us (the largest retail toy stores in the USA) that they must sell porn and dildos on store shelves, or else risk being fined millions of dollars for being guilty of “anti-competitive” practices.

    It seems like all the boneheaded socialists and anti-business communists, as well as these Apple-bashing Google fanboys, are the ones that are endorsing and wishing that these kinds of limitations be shackled on Apple, they are hoping that the Obama Administration (DoJ or FTC) are the instruments that will “enforce” these rules to kick Apple’s business to the ground because Apple has gotten way too big and successful for its own good.

    When I hear shit like this, it makes me WISH that George Bush (as much as he was an idiot) and the neoconservatives came back to govern the USA. At least they had the wisdom and good sense to let businesses become successful.

    Yes, some business regulation is good in some cases. For example, safety and environmental concerns when it comes to offshore oil drilling (e.g. BP and the Gulf of Mexico).

    But way too much regulation of businesses (like the nitwits who want the Government to step in and force Apple to sell/distribute porn on its own app store) is grossly boneheaded.

  • Macdots

    Porn is Animal Instinc —> Think Primitive

    Apple Inc. is Innovation for good People —-> Think Different

  • Gil Batri

    The point you miss is this folks.

    Apple is the ONLY choice for shopping on these devices.

    The analogy to Toys R Us and Dildos and being forced to sell porn is at best misguided if not mendacious. If I want to buy a playboy magazine or whatever, I can go to a store that sells them.

    I can not go to a store that sells them on these devices, because there is only ONE. it is NOT a retail market. The analogy does not work. It is a closed environment, and is more akin to govenment censorship from that perspective. (I am not saying it is my constitutional right to buy porn/adult content from Apple, because I am not dense) but that analogy is closer then the Porn at Toy R Us analogy that all the apologists are trying to use.

    If you as the vendor (Apple) of the market leading technology insist on having a closed system, you are subject to different terms then if say, I could sell my wares for an iPhone without involving you (Apple).

    That is the point here, not whether it is agreeable, or “clogs up” the app store.