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iPhone 3.0 Parental Controls Now Allows for Explicit Content on App Store

This is bad news. I do hope they're hidden be default:

- The quality of apps in the AppStore is bad enough. I have to go through lots of "iPee" and "iFart" apps to find anything good. This will make it worse.
- As a developer, I'm going to be competing for visibility against porn apps, which really isn't fair. Part of the greatness of the AppStore is that it's a level playing field for independent developers against large businesses.
- Parents don't want their children to be able to access this stuff by default. I wouldn't either. Perfectly understandable objections and a perfectly reasonable solution.
 
Here's a suggestion. If you don't like nudity or porn, don't buy apps that may offend your sensibilities. Here's another one: Don't buy your minor child an iPhone or iPod touch unless you know how the Parental Controls work and have spoken candidly with him/her about iTunes, adult content, and your sensibilities.

I think the iPhone/iPod touch are privileges children should earn, not exploit. The buck really stops with you as the parent/guardian - not them - and certainly not Apple. Raise your own damned child and let others raise theirs without passing judgment or the buck to technology.

Apple would be wise to set and tune the parental control technology accordingly, and consumers can take it from there. Today, American culture is inundated with erectile dysfunction and male enhancement products on TV. Movie ratings don't provide any sort of insulation or controls to a minor child if the adults are attending R-movies with the child. TV Sitcoms and "reality shows" discuss sexuality and preferences openly. Love-making "scenes" have evolved almost to the point of Cinemax during prime time. And yet, a handful of Puritans are upset over nudity on an iPhone or iPod touch? :rolleyes: Give me a break.
 
DELLsFan said:
Here's a suggestion. If you don't like nudity or porn, don't buy apps that may offend your sensibilities. Here's another one: Don't buy your minor child an iPhone or iPod touch unless you know how the Parental Controls work and have spoken candidly with him/her about iTunes, adult content, and your sensibilities.

I think the iPhone/iPod touch are privileges children should earn, not exploit. The buck really stops with you as the parent/guardian - not them - and certainly not Apple. Raise your own damned child and let others raise theirs without passing judgment or the buck to technology.

Apple would be wise to set and tune the parental control technology accordingly, and consumers can take it from there. Today, American culture is inundated with erectile dysfunction and male enhancement products on TV. Movie ratings don't provide any sort of insulation or controls to a minor child if the adults are attending R-movies with the child. TV Sitcoms and "reality shows" discuss sexuality and preferences openly. Love-making "scenes" have evolved almost to the point of Cinemax during prime time. And yet, a handful of Puritans are upset over nudity on an iPhone or iPod touch? :rolleyes: Give me a break.
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Typical party-line argument.

Not all parents (in fact a minority of parents) are up to the technological challenges of being a parent. Kids today know much more about technology than their parents, and their parents are likely to buy them a device without knowing about the types of content offered or availability of parental controls, much less how to set them.

It's certainly not Apple's fault, but they do have some responsibility to make sure their platform is family-friendly, and anything else is an opt-in rather than opt-out scenario. The blame may stop at the parents, but it goes through a lot of stations to get there.

Parental controls either need to be heavily advertised (as others here have mentioned) or enabled by default, which is the cheapest and most effective way to deal with this.
 
know-it-all5 said:
Now, if apple starts allowing graphic pornography (ie. actual sex) on the App Store, that would shock me. It doesn't "bother" me personally, but I know that would anger a lot of people. That would probably be a dumb move on Apple's part... Yes they'd make money, but they would also get a ton of angry letters.
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Well, they do have Weeds and TrueBlood in iTunes. Those shows have shown people having sex. :confused:
 
I am happy for this. Not for the porn...ok maybe for the porn, BUT for the reason that we shouldn't really be seeing Apple denying apps to the store because of their content. It was really becoming an issue when Apple was telling us what we could see/do with our phone. This will make it to where we can choose what to download and what not too. Yay! :D
 
Here come the macrumors prudes....

It's ok to have iterminator, igun this, igun that; imob, ivampire, ikill all, those are good for kids :) We ALL know that boobies are the real evil in the world and jiggly bobbies are the devil. :rolleyes:

Guess what people, apple wants to make money. If apples supports adult apps, will that make you not want to buy a 17" macrbook pro? I didn't think so. The same goes for money from adult apps. Apple just wants our money.

So they will have a have an update to itunes, make you click "yes" 12 times; then make you give a kidney if you want to change your mind. Until we see iAnal with accelerometer controlled thrusting and realistic iMoaning, I think we are OK.
 
I don't want porn or nudity apps on my iPhone and hope that Apple keeps the lid on this. There are enough other places people can get this stuff if they want to.

The further they go down this road, the more it has the potential to diminish and devalue their corporate brand and public image....which could greatly impact their bottom line and stock value.
 
Does this mean we can download Porn movies and Porn TV shows?
And will we be able to watch porn on Apple TV?

I don't understand why they need to do this. I thought jailbreak phones were happy in providing that type of service.

If they really want to do this they should create another section in your profile where you can enable adult content. By default the establishment of your online account will not allow you to see that content. And non-registered payment methods won't allow you to see it either. But if you register your payment and turn on adult content then you should be able to search for it. Basically the limits should be placed on the account and not the security settings of your iphone. Implementing both would be good. But I think it should start at the producer and not the consumer well in this case the provider and not the consumer. Producers are those that make the content. Providers are those that distribute the contents and consumers are those that use the content which is us.

I can see ads from Microsoft.
"Beware iPhone and iPod Touch are no longer safe for Kids because iTunes is now a haven for Porn business"
Microsoft Zune might make a come back!!!
 
Imagine a iDildo app with an iDildo accessory for women. Your boyfriend sends a push notification and bam the accessory turns on. Now thats cybersex right there. ahahaha
Ok i know this is a disgusting idea but im just kinding, and trying too show all the iphone features in 3.0:p:p:p:p
 
Great, so now the Top 25 will fill up with Porn apps. Wonderful, can't wait. Maybe they'll open a separate Porn store to keep it off the front page.
 
toddngina said:
Great, so now the Top 25 will fill up with Porn apps. Wonderful, can't wait. Maybe they'll open a separate Porn store to keep it off the front page.
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That is my concern....

I hope the iTunes ratings come into play on that side - my kids all like to browse the store to find Apps for grandpa to buy (and i'm talking down to the 4yo).
 
If they do a lot of countries are going to ban iTunes Store especially china and muslin countries. They really need to think about this. And what happens with the relationships such as with walt disney? Will it be terminated?
 
Porn? Not yet, just good old fashioned nudity!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a great difference between nudity and porn.

Having said that, I haven't got an iPhone, so it wouldn't affect me. On the other hand, during the course of two years and a half, I purchased 6 Apple MacBooks and MacBook Airs. I wouldn't mind some porn on them in return for proper quality management. My white MacBook cracked several times, I returned three unibodies, mostly for misaligned keys, noisy HDDs and constant fan noise. My MacBook Air is being used for typing as my late-2008 2.4 GHz MacBook's screen is so poor. Shame about the overheating and the CPU whine on the Air. Frustratingly, now there is a new line, making my MB an overpriced prototype. So, I'd rather have some nudity or porn. And I would be willing to pay for it, despite the fact that only very desperate people don't find enough porn for free on the internet.
 
Giddy-up!

Thank god for 'Picture Safe' on the iPhone then.
I use it daily and it's saved me from being busted by hiding my Pron many times :D
 
Apple is no longer the "super nintendo" of handhelds

I think many of you are missing the point. This opens the door for developers to create games with mature content, aimed at teens and adults. Note that I don't mean "porn"...

Game developers can now include realistic violence, sexual innuendo, cursing, smoking, etc, without worrying about Apple refusing their app.

For those that don't get the SNES reference, Nintendo of America was notorious in those days for not allowing blood in their games, nor alcohol references, nor cleavage, etc.
 
Saladinos said:
Typical party-line argument.
Not all parents (in fact a minority of parents) are up to the technological challenges of being a parent. Kids today know much more about technology than their parents, and their parents are likely to buy them a device without knowing about the types of content offered or availability of parental controls, much less how to set them.
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IMHO, if they are not up to the task of parenting their children, they shouldn't have children.

Seriously, what kind of a parent buys their 7 year old an iPhone?
 
kernkraft said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a great difference between nudity and porn.
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You are of course correct. Nudity is not porn at all. A fair percentage of the people on many forums, not just this one, can not seem to accept or even acknowledge that.

Not sure why ...that would be an interesting study.
 
robanga said:
You are of course correct. Nudity is not porn at all. A fair percentage of the people on many forums, not just this one, can not seem to accept or even acknowledge that.

Not sure why ...that would be an interesting study.
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I worked in a photo lab for quite some time. If you and I are naked and we appear to be over 18 years old, and I put my finger on your forehead, that is pornography. It is a thin line.
 
sellitom said:
...If you and I are naked and we appear to be over 18 years old, and I put my finger on your forehead, that is pornography.
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You are a sick, sick person! That is so perverted and disgusting. I have a friend who got busted in a sting buying some of that finger on the forehead porn. Yuk.:eek::D:D
 
App is pulled...

The app got pulled - can't access even the info page on my 3GS - haha!

EDIT: Nevermind - must have just been a bug...
 
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