[trollian]

I think it's great that users have a choice of mobile platforms. Many people would rather not have any adult content on their phones and they choose iOS. Who are we to force it upon them? If they wanted a an uncensored experience they would have bought a different phone.

[Lazare]

Please. iPhones have a browser; you can open google image search, type "sex" and get some adult content.

Apple is not attempting to create an adult content free device (not that it'd be a good idea if they were; it's just that is clearly not a thing they are attempting to do).

[43920]

Steve Jobs in 2010: "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone." (https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/19/steve-jobs-android-porn/)

On the web, Apple has a lot less control over content, and so it would be difficult for them to censor it effectively (and customers perceive it as open, so if Apple introduced mandatory filtering in Safari, it likely would cause a lot of backlash). But in the App Store, where they have more control, creating a device free of adult content absolutely seems to be their goal.

[slaymaker1907]

Please show me where exactly Apple advertises itself as porn-free in regards to iOS.

[smoldesu]

No one here is forcing it upon anyone; the easy solution here is to have the app filter NSFW content by default and then force the user to manually enable it if they do want to engage with the content, which appeases both users. Trying to argue that having your hands tied isn't so bad because your feet are still free is a very slippery slope though, and it's not an argument that ends with anyone's platforms being better. It's especially not an argument when the platform owners have practically infinite resources and bigger fish to fry than "how hard is it to access porn on my iPhone". What we really need to do is take a long, hard look at the devices we have, and decide whether we are the ones who should control them, or third parties. Pretty much every other argument is a strawman.

[Griffinsauce]

You could even make it a system-wide setting that you can control through parental controls, giving you an extra selling point for the "think of the children" crowd.

[Griffinsauce]

This is such a wild line of reasoning. How much of people's purchasing decision is driven by "has porn" vs. "does not have porn" according to you?

Do you have any data supporting that claim?

> Who are we to force it upon them?

This is a red herring that makes "us" the subject instead of Apple.