Sunday, May 16, 2010

Steve Jobs wants products "Free from Porn"- My response is, "And what's wrong with that?!"

An idiot in the Gawker office got into an email argument with Steve Jobs two nights back. Apple has been taking a lot of heat from critics over the past few months, over their App approval process, their battles with Adobe, rumoured battles with Google, and most recently, their response to Gawker posting pics of the lost (stolen?) iPhone 4G prototype.
Read what went down here

I can understand that some people are getting frustrated with some of Apple's decisions. Some I agree with, and some (mostly the ones that affect me as a consumer) are just plain annoying. Yet, I think as a company (and not a Government body) Apple has the right to uphold a certain sense of morality and not have porn Apps available on their devices. Are they blocking porn sites on their devices that are freely available to people? No they're not (a moot point if you live in the UAE). Should they have the right to control what goes on the device, that may be offensive to people with kids or with different cultural backgrounds? Hell yeah!

I think it's amazing that somebody of Steve Jobs' status and profile actually gets into a discussion with anybody who randomly emails him, much less emails him at 2 AM in the morning. Ryan Tate's language is rude and offensive, and considering he is a Writer, one would think he'd get his point across without the need to throw in the F word all that much. I realized when I was around 12, using it doesn't make you look cool... a lesson Mr Tate is obviously yet to learn.

I REALLY want to know what his response to Jobs' closing question was, "By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything or just criticize others works and belittle their motivations?" From the looks of it, he was unable to respond to that. He did get a juicy story to post on Gawker though, although it makes him look like a real chump more than anything else. Thoughts?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Being a new dad, I am completely with SJ.

It is scary to think that kids today are exposed to so much explicit content and sometimes inadvertently too.

I like the fact that Parental Controls is available out of the box on a Mac. Unlike in Windows, where you need to rely on third party solutions.

CH

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