Having survived liver cancer and being fired by Apple, not to mention negotiations with some of the planet’s toughest business brains, Steve Jobs is hardly shy of a battle – and his latest target is pornography. He wants to keep it off Apple products.Given the proliferation of porn on the web, this might seem Canute-ish – and profit-sapping. Yet so insistent is Apple, many magazine publishers developing “apps” for the new iPad, which launches in the UK on Friday, have had to self-censor. In the offices of the lifestyle magazine Dazed and Confused, the iPad version is mockingly known as “the Iranian version”, because of the amount of censorship required to get it approved for Apple’s App Store. Germany’s Stern magazine saw its app pulled because it runs topless photo spreads, while the newspaper Bild has added bikinis to its topless models.To read this report in The Guardian in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/may/25/ipad-porn-free-steve-jobs
Apple’s Steve Jobs censors apps for iPad
Having survived liver cancer and being fired by Apple, not to mention negotiations with some of the planet’s toughest business brains, Steve Jobs is hardly shy of a battle – and his latest target is pornography. He wants to keep it off Apple products.