Comments on: this week in sexual hysteria: Apple loses it

By: Rich Jonson

Rich Jonson — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:17:49 +0000

Bit of thread resurrection here, sorry, but after years of being anti-Apple, I’ve recently been forcibly converted after getting an iPad as a gift – and found the locked down system Apple insists on in everything from content to media distribution to be thoroughly awful. There are a few decent streaming apps I’ve found (iPlayer, Netflix and so on) but in terms of buying and actually owning your purchases, Apple are awful.

Even worse is this top-down morality play – I thought there was something dodgy about the company after Jobs’ infamous “freedom from porn” soundbite a few years back. As long as age restrictions are in place, why should the giant corporation control what consenting adults see? It reminds me of when they banned the iBuzz vibrator toy that worked with iPods (which is weird, since there are loads of other iPod vibrators still on the market, and Apple hasn’t gone after them…). I just don’t get why the company is so afraid of sex.

By: cando

cando — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:07:09 +0000

I find this this strangely sad, and surprising. It’s not an issue up north in Canada, you can have skin on your iphone here!

By: LoveHoney - Carly

LoveHoney - Carly — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:44:48 +0000

This isn’t the first time that Apple have been unreasonable. They’ve actually taken out court cases against anyone who uses a lower case ‘i’ before a capital letter and anyone who has used dancing silhouettes on their packaging or advertisements. Case in point – LoveHoney’s iBuzz.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:11:13 +0000

DominaDoll: I was thinking the exact same thing, in fact, I only looked at the comments to see if anyone else was thinking what I was thinking.

By: Redme

Redme — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:59:38 +0000

Yet another reason why the sanitary eye-pad will be a flop.

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:20:21 +0000

The problem with Apple is that they make such nice gadgets. Unfortunately they are paranoid control freaks and have been for years now.

When Apple had hammer throwing blonde amazons in their adverts some of us, even then, had a wry little laugh at the irony, unfortunately all the Apple fanbois totally failed to get the joke and it appears they still don’t get it.

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:56:45 +0000

Big companies are big targets in a society that would have all of us living under one big child-proof cap. This is standard corporate CYA.

By: DominaDoll

DominaDoll — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:17:43 +0000

Ummm… those microphones are very phallic. or is i just me? Great interview BTW!

By: Darkstar

Darkstar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:30:21 +0000

This is why I refuse to buy an iPhone. Instead, I have a Windows Mobile phone made by a company which doesn’t try to tell me what I can or cannot install, nor where I have to get it from.

*Independence from Apple!*

By: jamasiel

jamasiel — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:49:55 +0000

While I dig what you mean here, “Think Different” doesn’t necessarily mean “Think in any ol’ way”, and Apple has, from bottom to top, a very restricted method and philosophy which works for them. Unfortunately, comparisons to Atwood’s works and claims about “worse people” are useless – it’s their private business and this only impacts those who choose to enter this specific walled garden.

By: casualencounters.com/blog

casualencounters.com/blog — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:40:46 +0000

Yeah I wish I understood why Gates is constantly being called out on acts of douchery when Jobs is usually given a free pass, even though he’s an even worse human being (not to mention greedy and duplicitous). Is it just because Apple makes slightly better UIs?

Spare me.

By: Jordon

Jordon — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:18:19 +0000

Daniel RE: Where this might end. State sanctioned dress codes and society mirroring “A Handmaidens Tale”…? (Okay, so that is a little extreme.)

What I find funny is that corporations are, at their heart money making entities. People like pictures of pretty ladies. Pretty ladies = money. But, because of puritanical ideas of morality, some companies–in this case Apple–have decided to not touch them with a ten foot pole… there is a double entendre there that I’ll just leave up to you guys. But these purportedly moral companies will engage in mergers and acquisitions that seem in violation of anti-monopoly laws, cheap labor, toxic parts, corporate espionage, buying politicians (thank you Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) and still maintain a facade of morality. It’s about appearances. If you throw out a false front it doesn’t matter what you do behind closed doors. If a company could turn a profit on porn and figure skaters, I’m not sure why they aren’t. Right leaning conservatives always talk about letting people “vote with their dollar.” People will buy what apps they want, and avoid the ones they don’t. Not selling “adult” apps probably falls into a “somebody think of the children” argument; one of my least favorite arguments because its often construed to strip rights and freedoms ala Prop 8.

Granted, I like Apple products. I just don’t like the false morality and corporate bs going on.

So endth the rant.

By: James

James — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:57:45 +0000

dumb

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:49:24 +0000

The new prudery is spreading and it’s very sad to see that Apple is willingly obeying.
If absolutely normal sport suits as ice skating tights and similar ones are considered overtly sexual I wonder where this might end.