Porn made its debut on the iPhone this week. While it was a limited showing as Apple quickly yanked the racy program from its App Store, it caused quite a stir in the tech world as bloggers were eager to speculate that Apple had opened the floodgates to adult content for its wildly popular smartphones.

But Apple appears to be holding the line on decency for now, although this brief appearance of the first application to feature nude photos raises questions about whether Apple will stick with its early pledge to not distribute X-rated content for its iPhone and iPod touch devices, which have combined sales of more than 40 million units.

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  1. Luke Johnson

    It was only a matter of time before porn made it to the iPhone. I think they should say hold on a while until more phones are out there and most have the porn capacity. It will happen, and in a survey I saw, about 70 percent of people just don’t care that much about it. The survey results and some other stuff on this video http://www.newsy.com/videos/iporn

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