p2pnet news | Mobiles:- What’s the next major transmogrification of Apple’s vaunted iPhone?

Porn.

Yup.

Mobile pornography.

The “soon-to-be-updated device” is also, “increasingly the source of forbidden fruit,” says Time, going on >>>

Several leading porn players are getting ready for the new version of Apple’s device

The technological feats of the 3G iPhone are key to the coming pornucopia. To date, mobile porn has consisted largely of still images, racy text services and “moan tones,” which are sultry-sounding ringtones. In Europe there is an active market for video chatting; customers pay on average $50 a month to exchange dirty messages with actresses. But now, thanks in large part to the iPhone’s video dexterity, short clips are becoming a staple of the mobile porn business.

The speed promised by the iPhone 2.0 is much anticipated. Google Trends, which measures Web buzz, shows a sharp increase over the past year in the popularity of the term “iPhone porn.”

Thus, “Leading porn purveyors see the iPhone as a dream come true,” the story says, continuing the miniaturized version of Apple’s Safari software, “simplifies mobile access and streamlines the process of tailoring dirty sites for optimal viewing on the go.

Numerous iPhone-specific porn sites have been launched in recent months but, “Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock says the company doesn’t condone iPhone porn distribution and will ban adult content from official applications, just as it has restricted adult content in the podcast section of the Apple store,” says Time, going to quote

Mark Kirstein, president of Multimedia Intelligence, a mobile-research firm, as stating says the iPhoneand is like a Trojan horse, “that lets smut providers cut out the carrier as middleman”.

‘No one else seems to have the cajones …’

The spectre of children using the iPhone as a sex viewer has also been raised.

Apple says parents can use mobile-phone porn blockers, but, “Some parents may not be tech-savvy enough to figure that out, though, and some kids may be clever enough to find a work-around,” says Juniper analyst Windsor Holden in the Time story, saying:

“If a minor with one of these phones pokes around, he could easily access adult sites without his parents’ knowledge.”

Meanwhile, “Ok,” posted Jason Swifter in iPhone Matters, last year, “I’m just going to say it because no one else seems to have the cajones to.”

He went on >>>

The iPhone has some seriously huge porn implications. Not only do we have a device that has a decent sized color screen, access to the internet, and a built-in speaker: the user navigates through screens by touch. Touch, the sense that has the biggest associated with porn.

So here’s the deal everyone. I’m going to just say it so no one else has to. I have an idea of the best interactive porn application for the iphone. I just hope someone makes it.

Here it goes.

I wish that there was an application that allowed you to undress people by dragging your fingers across the screen and literally dragging it off. Then I wish that by using my finger on a picture of a preferably nude model, I can rub, touch, stroke, etc. Finally, I wish that through the speaker, i can get positive audio feedback of my actions.

There I said it. Don’t tell me you wouldn’t want that.

Stay tuned for the dial tone.

. .Stumble It!

Time - The iPhone’s Next Frontier: Porn, June 18, 2008
iPhone Matters - My iPhone Porn Wish: What Everyone Wants But is Too Chicken to Say, September 12, 2007

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