CYBERSPACE — Although iPorn.com currently says it’s “under maintenance,” Mobile-Ent.biz insists that it’s been signing up users at a staggering rate. Perhaps that’s why it’s taken a bit of time off; to freshen up for the next wave of horn dogs eager to use their fabu new tech toy for what the IT gods intended: viewing porn.Steve Jobs may want the owners of his much-desired iPhone to use it only for the purest of entertainment, education and communication purposes (which appear to include celebrating violence and adolescent vulgarity), but a fair number of people who own his much-desired iPhone have other plans.
According to Mobile-Ent.biz, iPorn.com managed to sign up an impressive 45,000 users since launching itself during Apple’s WWDC Conference in June.
That’s not small potatoes.
Or Apples, for that matter.
When not “under maintenance,” the iPorn site is said to provide subscribers with access to iPhone-targeted, erotically-themed social networking features and streaming videos. Because it is a website and not an app, Jobs’ nervousness about the sins of the flesh don’t keep iPhone users from being able to indulge.
iPorn is quoted as distributing a statement that “It was widely reported that Apple stated that the developers of ‘The Hottest Girl’ iPhone application added x-rated content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed through the iTunes App Store. In contrast, the makers of the iPorn web application never sought to deceive Apple. Instead, iPorn was developed as a web application that can be obtained by users over the age of 18 through their iPhone web browser for free without having to purchase it through Apple’s iTunes App store, and bypasses Apple’s ability to censor content from the iPhone.”
Having dicked the iPhone, iPorn.com is apparently developing viewable versions of its content for the Blackberry, Palm Pre and Android handsets.
