Steve Jobs: 'Folks Who Want Porn Can Buy An Android Phone'

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, known for personally replying to users' email queries, has been firing off a string of replies in recent weeks.

Whether reminding would-be iPad buyers his team is "doing the best we can," suggesting Apple has trademarked the word "Pad," or suggesting a frustrated developer change his app's name, Jobs has been directly and tersely replying to customer concerns.

The latest email (reportedly) sent by the CEO addresses a touchy subject: Apple's oft-criticized app approval policy, and its ban on "adult" apps (the App Store recently yanked 6,000 "sexually suggestive" apps from iTunes).

Questioned over Apple's censorship of explicit content, Steve Jobs allegedly replied, "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," adding "Folks who want porn can buy and Android phone [sic]."

As TechCrunch notes, Jobs offered a similar reply at the Q&A following the iPhone 4.0 event:

You know, there's a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go - so we're not going to go there.

The customer also asked about Apple's rejection of a satirical app submitted by Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore. Jobs openly admitted Apple was in error: "Fiore's app will be in the store shortly. That was a mistake," he wrote.

Check out Steve Jobs' snappiest email replies, then see the most outrageous banned iPhone apps.

See the email exchange below (via 9 to 5 Mac:

Comments

[shockaslim]

02:46 PM on 04/22/2010

You can look at porn using SAFARI!! Come on don't be so stupid. Oh wait a minute, those sites usually use flash. Sorry.

[planetarywisdom]

03:31 PM on 04/22/2010

ITS becoming apparent across the land that there is a growing

awareness that without FLASH THE IPAD

IS REDUCED TO
NOTHING MORE THAN

DEAD END BRAIN DEAD WASTE OF MONEY

FOR those who want touch screen portability
the next few months will seen a plethora of REAL USEFUL OPTIONS
FROM EVERYONE including ASUS and HP ...............those will
with ipads will be not be able to sell their piece of junk for more
than 25 dollars .............IF THAT..................IT MAY BE THE
GREATEST RIPOFF since madoff sailed the sea

[planetarywisdom]

12:07 PM on 04/22/2010

WELL it having be clarrified that APPLE has banned Englands's greatest literary figure William Shakespeare as PORN, the question remains if APPLE is going to ban America's greatest literary figure, which of course is none other than the late great HENRY MILLER. Will JOBS super duper porn repellent system
allow people to buy Miller's TROPICS duet or ROSY trilogy WHICH ARE CHOCKED FULL of
Henry being bad, or will AMERICA'S GREATEST WRITER BE BANNED TOO. if so, seems like
the whole populations eventually will just have to go back to reading DICK AND JANE.

[buddhistMonkey]

08:55 PM on 04/22/2010

((( "WELL it having be clarrified that APPLE has banned Englands's greatest literary figure William Shakespeare as PORN..." )))

"You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense." ~ W. Shakespeare [The Tempest]

As usual, you are utterly, ridiculously wrong. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is available, for free, on Apple's iBook Store. It currently resides at #9 on the Top Free Books chart.

[planetarywisdom]

11:53 AM on 04/22/2010

I have been told by acquaintances who like web porn that is free that there are essentially two kinds .......................the older stuff which almost all on APPLE QUICKTIME in a MOV. FORMAT which
is still the dominant format as their is so much of............and newer stuff in FLV. Jobs has been
around since the beginning
as a far as I KNOW has never said a word before about APPLE
HAVING ANY OBJECTION TO THE THE ADAPTATION OF ITS FORMAT
............................FOR WEB PORN............
moreover, APPLE HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO GET PEOPLE TO
PAY FOR THE
PRO
VERSION.................TAUTING ITS SUPERIORITY in a number of ways.

Which include SAVING THE QUICKTIME MOVIES VIEWED ON THE WEB.

so there is a contradiction here. FOR 15 YEARS APPLE HAS PROMOTED
SAVING MOV FILES THROUGH ITS
..................................YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR
PRO VERSION OF QUICKTIME.

THAT MEANS OF COURSE PEOPLE HAVE SAVED THEIR FAV. PORN
THANKS TO APPLE.

NOW JOBS is saying apple is going PURITANICAL, AFTER ALL THESE
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE BOUGHT THEIR
PRO QUICKTIME.....................

seems like APPLE IS DOUBLE DEALING HERE and should
offer the worlds people a
refund for their QUICKTIME PRO.............SHOULDNT THEY?
WILL LARRY KING PLEASE COVER THIS SOON?

[Rayven]

08:45 AM on 04/22/2010

I concur with Steve, I feel having a "porn app" for a phone that is being sold to "everyone" (kids, teenagers) is not good at all! Company's should look at their moral obligation to the consumer, and Steve in this instance, has done just that......good show Steve!

[Etruscate]

03:07 PM on 04/22/2010

Yeah, morally obligated to tell the consumer what they're not allowed to buy. Brilliant.

[planetarywisdom]

05:06 PM on 04/22/2010

if Apple is so moral as YOU imply\

why is it that ALL THE EMPLOYEES in their stores
are young, lean, and good lookin

and they have ABSOLUTELY no old, fat, ugly store people at all, let
alone handicapped.........................

EVERYONE KNOWS THIS.....APPLE STORES ARE LIKE THE
perfumeria ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF GALERIES LAYFEYETE IN paris

ABSOLUTE STORES HIRE model types ONLY and
those who buy apple implicitly approve

NOTHING DISTINGUISHES APPLE FROM THE PERFUME STANDS....
ITS so much IMAGE ONLY A FOOL MISTAKE IT FOR MORALITY, A TOTAL TOTAL FOOL

[planetarywisdom]

05:12 PM on 04/22/2010

You need to get your head around the fact that
if \ LORD JOBS
WERE to apply for a job at an APPLE STORE
HIS
RESUME WOULD BE IN THE WASTEBASKET
A SECOND AFTER HE LEFT....

TOOOOOOOOO OLLLLLLLDDDDDDDD......

[planetarywisdom]

05:14 PM on 04/22/2010

if i am wrong APPLE should publish a breakdown
of the ages of their store employees
and show
the world
that they DONT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF AGE,
which of course if a violation of LAW

[davidgoldmandg]

07:05 AM on 04/22/2010

How do you spell apple? C-H-I-N-A

No wonder they get along so famously.

In fact, this whole apple vs google thing - and before that the apple vs microsoft thing is a mini-play of US versus China.

An open free system versus a closed dictatorial system.

We shall see who will win.

[davidgoldmandg]

04:41 AM on 04/22/2010

Apple is like china - more unwritten laws than a horse has hairs.

[darthmaul]

01:01 AM on 04/22/2010

I for one want to thank Steve for helping all us iPhone users stay on the straight and narrow. Come on everybody we should all thank Steve! He knows whats best for us!

[WDavid]

10:25 PM on 04/21/2010

Thank you for not being an enabler. Porn is not something to be proud of, it is something to be avoided. There is no such thing as a 'porn star,' a performer in the porn industry is a victim.

[Draekia]

05:39 AM on 04/22/2010

Oh please, isn't everyone who works for an exploitative corporation a victim then?

Ever worked retail? Talk about demeaning.

The girls choose to work in a field that pays better than other alternatives vs the amount of actual work they put into it. Yes, they're exploited, but they have full choice in joining/staying in the industry. Religious/historical sexual taboos/shyness in our culture is nothing but out of date and annoying.

All of that being said, I don't even watch porn but once in a great while as I can get a steady supply of.. *ahem* ... relief with out it. I do not, however, claim a moral high ground when I have my own angels (and neither should you, Sir/Madame.

[Rena Lanford]

10:48 AM on 04/22/2010

You should look up what Apple considers "porn". We're talking limits that would make the entire Victorian era call it overly prudish.

[ohnoforgotmyusername]

10:12 PM on 04/21/2010

AND THEY WILL.

1 OUT OF EVERY 3 PEOPLE ONLINE AT ANY GIVEN TIME ARE LOOKING AT OR SEARCHING FOR PORN.

STATISTICAL FACT.

BECAUSE OF THIS, ANDROID WILL OVERTAKE AND BURY THE i PHONE.

(oops sorry about the caps lock!)

[Niet]

09:48 PM on 04/21/2010

Dang. Shoulda got a Droid. Whatever will I do for the next 2 years with no porn?

[Krek]

07:28 PM on 04/21/2010

Dutch has reinvented himself again.

[planetarywisdom]

08:02 PM on 04/21/2010

like uncle scrooge in the famous ducktale, ol stevo duck can use HIS SUPER DUPER PORN REPELLENT SYSTEM, phase one being if it sounds like PORN, NIXIT, LOOKS LIKE, NIX IT,
FEELS LIKE IT, NIX IT. STEVE NEEDS TO ARTICULATE HIS CRITERIA
FOR
......................SOUNDING AND LOOKING AND FEELING LIKE IT.................APPLE NEEDS
TO HIRE THE NATIONS best minds to articulate this, perhaps those fired in the SPACE PROGRAM.
....................................................CUPERTINO DUCK TALES

[planetarywisdom]

08:10 PM on 04/21/2010

FIRST TEST OF McStevo pornsuper duper repellent system

SHAKESPEARE AND HIS 175 SONNETS

phase one TEST QUESTION

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY....implicit reference to HOT SEX

sounds like porn positive
looks like porn positive
feels like porn positive

that is it..........................no SHAKESPEARE SONNET FOR IPHONE OR IPAD

[planetarywisdom]

07:15 PM on 04/21/2010

There is rumor floating around that Steve is going to star in the upcoming imax ultra big screen
version of FATHER KNOWS BEST and that it will be in 3d. Can't wait to watch it on my new
HP TABLET when it comes out..................Steve will be so good in this role given
his MORAL LEADERSHIP AND WILLINGNESS TO BE OUR GRAND INQUISITOR
AND DETERMINE WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG FOR US. cant wait............going to fire up the popcord right now.............................yum .........................steve and apple know best .............wow

[montex]

05:12 PM on 04/21/2010

I really don't want to be sitting next to someone on a bus or plane who is watching porn on their iPhone. I say keep it in private where it belongs. Besides, the iPhone and iPad have access to the internet where you can find anything you want.

[planetarywisdom]

06:29 PM on 04/21/2010

APPLE sells itunes which are almost all PORNOGRAPHIC ................LETS TWIST AGAIN LIKE WE DID LAST SUMMER, YOUR 1 6, TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM, ST]RAWBERRY FIELDS, ALL OF THE DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT, WAH WAH, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU, ETC ETC ETC.
IF THE MUSIC ISNT PORNOGRAPHY WHAT IS?????????????????????????????????

[VirginiaJeff]

06:39 PM on 04/21/2010

Hey, kid. Typing words in all caps is like shouting. If you want to hang out with the grownups, please lower your voice and raise your level of thoughfulness.

[Piratefish]

03:09 PM on 04/21/2010

Hey Steve I would LOVE an iphone but I dont want ATT so why dont you stop talking so much and hook up Verzion

[Phoebe917]

03:33 PM on 04/21/2010

BINGO! BTW, my 2Grand Apple is driving me craz y. "You cant to do this, you can't go there." Jeez.

[planetarywisdom]

04:05 PM on 04/21/2010

YOU HAVE captured the ESSENCE OF APPLE.

ITS THE no you can't company. the GRAND INQUISITOR
WHICH IS LEADING
EVERYONE
BACK T TO THE DARK AGES WHERE THE cupertino castle

want a BITE OF EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE, THINK, HEAR ABOUT...

OTHER WISE YOU CAN'T

JUNK IS JUNK. TRASH IT ON EBAY FOR 4 DOLLARS
AND TELL EVERYONE APPLE is the path to darkness and to Beware of DARKNESS

[ladkathy]

02:28 PM on 04/21/2010

I can't stand this guy.

[ohnoforgotmyusername]

10:14 PM on 04/21/2010

fanned for your good taste.