Smartphones

X-Rated iPhone Apps?

By Josh Quittner | June 8, 2009 | +

One interesting thing Apple showed off at the Developers’ Conference today was parental controls. With the 3.0 version of iPhone’s OS, which will be disseminated next week, you’ll be able to set your iPhone so that your kid can’t download age-inappropriate content to it.

While I have always found the concept of parental controls silly, the secret message here is that Apple appears to be finally getting out of the censorship business. I mean, if you can prohibit your iPhone from being able to download x-rated apps, that must mean that there will be x-rated apps, right? So let’s see, Apple has 50,000 apps now. Any bets on how many it will have a year from now?

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  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    I think the fact that there’s already a Cylon Detector spooked them, Daniel.

  • suiter

    “Any bets on how many it will have a year from now?”

    I think there’s an app for that.

  • Rorschach

    I use my iPhone too much already!

  • Dave

    If they release microwave and toilet peripherals for the iPhone, that would alleviate a lot of concerns over population growth.

  • dennitzio

    I can just see the office at Apple where they are required to review all the X-rated apps. They’ll get kleenex delivered by the palletload. Or maybe we’ll know when they’re staffing up because they’ll have a posting for “talented, hard-working junior programmers with at least six months of experience with the iPhone SDK. Must be a eunuch with at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science or interactive design.”

  • tereglith

    The year is 2097 in Korea. “Next week’s history seminar: iPhone – The Decline and Fall of American Civilization.”

  • lostepic

    Eunuchs are an underestimated adn underappriciated demographic.

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