UPDATED: Apple Removes First iPhone Porn App
11:05 am, June 25th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Apple appears to have pulled Hottest Girls, the first iPhone porn app.
UPDATE 2: The app is available again from the App Store. Just checked at 4PM 6/25/09.
UPDATE: Apple hasn’t removed the app, the developer has, thanks to the strain on the saucy images server. “The server usage is extremely high because of the popularity of this app,” says the developer. “Thus, by not distributing the app, we can prevent our servers from crashing.” The app still works for those who have already bought it, the developer says.
The first iPhone porn app has been removed from the iPhone App Store.
The softcore app, Hottest Girls, was downloadable for a few hours on Thursday, but is now unavailable. Neither Apple nor the developer were immediately available to provide an explanation, but it appears Apple changed its mind after the app received so much press attention on Thursday.
The $1.99 app for the iPhone and iPod touch featured 2,000 images of “topless, sexy babes and nude models,” according to reports.
Wired.com’s Charlie Sorrell, who downloaded the app before it was removed, said it was “terrible.”
“There is no slideshow to display a progressive striptease of the same model, so you are limited to one picture at a time before you have to navigate back to the main screen, which shows a lack of understanding as to how a porn app should work,” he wrote.
The brief approval of the app had many wondering if Apple was now willing to approve adult content on the App Store. The iPhone 3.0 OS includes age restrictions on applications.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, News, Software, iPhone | Comment on this article
The developer temporarily pulled it because it was too popular…it will be back.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/25/iphone-3-0-parental-controls-now-allows-for-explicit-content-on-app-store/
Frank, on June 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Nudity can hardly be called porn… At least not where I am from..
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I think this is an interesting story but its a moot point. There is no need for porn based apps given the speed in which you can stream porn onto your phone with the 3G network. The only advantage an app would have over the current way people get porn is if the app was a fun game. Otherwise for the most part people who are looking for adult content are looking for streaming movies which you can get from sites like WantedList http://m.wantedlist.com/.
WL Tom, on June 26th, 2009 at 11:13 am