iPhone News Updated

Droid does, iPhone doesn’t: The porn app store

Oh, you knew someone was going to do this. So let’s just get it over with. And though some might think of this as a battle between the Droid and the iPhone for the nation’s morality, let’s be open-source about it: someone’s trying to make a lot of money from cell phone porn.

A company with the obtusely childlike name MiKandi has launched a mobile app store that will exclusively cater to adults whose brain food consists of content that reflects their age. Yes, the sort of stuff some prefer to refer to as porn.

MiKandi’s publicity material naturally avoids this term, referring to the more PC phrase “adult only.” However, there is a little kink in its offering. According to Android fanperson site, Phandroid, the MiKandi Market apps only work with Android phones and not with Apple’s more morally minded handsets.

Cupertino steadfastly sticks to its policy of refusing to allow apps filled purely with adult content, though some might dispute whether its definition of “adult” isn’t occasionally a little idiosyncratic.

Not for a moment would one suggest that Verizon or Motorola or the deities at Google are necessarily in favor of porn apps. However, MiKandi is attempting to take advantage of the fact that the Android system is more open than the iPhone’s.

So while the Android Market itself doesn’t offer porn, nothing on your Droid phone prevents you from using MiKandi’s services. The wise people at Phandroid do, however, offer stern warnings about MiKandi’s workings.

Despite attempting to use MiKandi’s services, purely for scientific purposes, Phandroid failed to actually secure access to any mature content. Remember, children, this sort of thing will always be a somewhat risky business.

[Thanks: http://news.cnet.com]

Tweet This Post 

Comments are closed.