The rise of iPorn - ample screen size means stiff competition for others

Friday, June 20. 2008

The rise of iPorn - ample screen size means stiff competition for others

We hypothesised last year that the iPhone's early day functionality, like all new media, will be heavily driven by porn. Here is confirmation from Time:

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 chat services and so-called "moan-tones," which are sultry-sounding ringtones. In Europe there is an active market for video chatting; customers pay $50 a month on average to exchange dirty messages with actresses. But now, thanks in large part to the iPhone's video dexterity, short clips are becoming a staple for the mobile porn business. The speed promised by 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."

We look forward to Apple reforming the online porn industry with an iTunes like service. YouPorn, you have been warned. But there are issues:

Opposition to iPhone porn, however, may grow as well. The genre's availability could spark new demand for mobile phone porn-blockers, as parents realize that children could access adult content on Apple's device.

Blimey - who buys iPhones for their kids?

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porn will be big business on screens no bigger than your imagination

#1 gregory on 2008-06-20 19:13 (Reply)

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