Apple: Walled Garden is to Keep Porn Out

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I find this particular defense to be utterly ridiculous. It’s the classic “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” trope. The iPhone already has parental controls. You already can deactivate the App store as well as iTunes there. Just add another switch for unapproved third party apps, heck, turn it on by default if you want to.

It doesn't even make sense because you can always just go on the internet to find porn.

Mentioning one gaping hole in the logic of that statement seemed to be enough to completely dismantle it :)

(The web part you mentioned is actually the frightening part of the whole thing. If they really wanted to carry their stance here to the logical conclusion they would have to filter the web or shut it out completely. I don’t think that’s what they plan or even want to do, it’s just a crappy and illogical statement Jobs formulated there. Why did Jobs say it? It seems just dumb.)

I think they just don't want to be associated with selling porn.

They wouldn’t have to. Just let people tap on links to .ipa files in Safari, pop up a huge and frightening warning dialog and let them then continue to install the app. No need to put anything into the app store they don’t approve of.

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