iPhone users can now proudly say iPORN
How many among you have tried accessing your emails from your mobile phones? How about downloading attachments? Ever tried downloading & watching porn on it? Cmon! admit it if you had, because the research says millions have. Heck I admit watching a few pixels move on my old MONOCHROME Nokia 6510 some years back. Now with the wide acceptance of phones like the iPhone the reach of the porn industry has just touched your pockets. (no PUN intended) And 2008 could be the year that pornography finally breaks through to the mobile user, thanks to new deals and advanced devices like the iPhone, said Ali Joone, co-founder and director of adult content firm Digital Playground. “Yes, it’s happening,” Joone said. Digital Playground already delivers its porn in customized form to the iPhone; their site even auto-detects whether iPhone users are on Wi-Fi or EDGE. Apple “has made the iPhone so beautifully simple, that if the adult video world can harness that simplicity they too will prosper,” said OhMiBod founder Suki Dunham, herself a former Apple employee. But not everyone in the world of porn is convinced that phones are the next frontier. “I just don’t know how to make money” with porn on phones, said New York porn entrepreneur Joanna Angel. “Anyway, people don’t watch porn in public. If you’re going to be sitting by yourself, why don’t you watch it on your laptop?” “Why can’t you sit by yourself and watch it on your phone?” Xtube’s Cassidy shot back.
That’s not the only war that’s been fought to stop mobile erotica, in Australia when mobile porn had a brief heyday when wireless carriers sold it directly – until a massive public outcry shut everything down. In the U.S., strict age verification systems could help salve carriers’ concerns. And Pink Visual says they don’t need any help from carriers at all to develop a market for iPhone porn.
