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by Lazare 1640 days ago
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).

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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.