Steve Jobs Says iPad Revolution Means ‘Freedom from Porn’

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Tuesday May 18, 2010 | Peter J. Smith

[It's me]

CUPERTINO, California, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, says his company will not be a party to the pornography industry and hopes that the iPad and iPhone revolution will help lead to a porn-free world.

Jobs reiterated his position in a heated e-mail exchange with Ryan Tate, a writer for Gawker.com, which follows news and gossip in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Tate, who admitted that he was home alone and slightly inebriated at the time, took issue with a television ad calling the iPad a “revolution” and fired off an e-mail to Jobs.

“If Dylan [American songwriter Bob Dylan is one of Jobs’ favorite musicians] was 20 today, how would he feel about your company? Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with ‘revolution?’ Revolutions are about freedom,” Tate wrote, not expecting a response from Jobs.

However, Jobs did respond to Tate, triggering an e-mail duel. “Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom,” responded Jobs. “The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.”

However, Tate accused Jobs of "imposing" his "morality" by having Apple forbid pornographic applications for iPad. “I don’t want ‘freedom from porn.’ Porn is just fine! And I think my wife would agree,” fired back Tate - who later said he regretted mentioning his wife.

Jobs shot back, “You might care more about porn when you have kids.”

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[RegulatorCountry]

When a brand means something, people buy it. That’s the underlying principle behind brand marketing. Apple products actually *are* distinct, they’re ahead of the curve, they’re lovingly designed and extremely well thought out, so much so that the rest of the industry falls in line with Apple without fail, every single time Apple innovates yet again. From the form factor to the materials used to the GUI, the whole industry is Apple or Apple derivative and has been since the inception of the PC industry.

Face it, you like to get under the hood, so to speak, to dink around and “build” your own system. More power to you, that’s something that has provided a handsome livelihood to many for several decades. It’s going the way of the buggy whip, though, and is being relegated slowly but surely to hobbyist status. No doubt people built their own televisions and radios back in the electronic dark ages, too. Who does now?

[Deagle]

Yes, I agree that I was a bit rude...sorry.

At to the facts, I have no complaints about anything I’ve said. You are the one that has problems.

[Deagle]

Ah, you sir have faced the facts and approached them head on! Yes, it is all about the brand and Apple does have it!

The only problem I have is that the “Brand” people seem to think that others are left out and don’t know the game...

Heh, Your response was the best in a long time... thanks

[Swordmaker]

Of course all products that are “Apple approved” seem to be so much more expensive. Not going to let that bother you I’m sure. They only okay those products - no profits to Apple, right?

What part of "competitively priced" do you FAIL TO UNDERSTAND???? If a printer in the Apple Store is priced at $249 and the SAME PRINTER is for sale at Best Buy for $249 are they not competitively priced??????? They may vary by $10 one way or the other. Sometimes it's Best Buy that's higher.

And Apple does not "OK" those products... they sell them in their store for their products. But there are other manufacturers that ALSO sell printers that will work and are advertised for Macs as well. No one is forcing Mac users to go to one of the 275 Apple stores around the world to buy a printer... or any other peripheral from them. There are lots of other retailers selling products for Apple computers of which you you seem totally ignorant... that most Mac users ARE aware of.

[Deagle]

“Face it, you like to get under the hood, so to speak, to dink around and “build” your own system. More power to you, that’s something that has provided a handsome livelihood to many for several decades. It’s going the way of the buggy whip, though, and is being relegated slowly but surely to hobbyist status. No doubt people built their own televisions and radios back in the electronic dark ages, too. Who does now?”

You have to know that you really hit a nerve there... I have built radios, TV’s, Computers, Test Equipment ( Oscilloscopes, Multimeters, Signal Generators, etc. ). along with several other obscure items...(Remember Heathkits?).

Anyway, you just may be right, these things may be times past OR they may just be the knowledge that saves the US in the future... (the way that it is going). Not really feeling secure these days...

Anyway, nice to hear from you...

[Swordmaker]

At to the facts, I have no complaints about anything I’ve said. You are the one that has problems.

Yes, I do have problems with untruths. I do have complaints about "Facts" that are NOT TRUE. You claim that Mac users buy over priced peripherals with NO PROOF... you make claims about Mac users that are insulting and you insulted me personally based on assumptions and ignorance... and facts you make up as you go along. When presented with truth that counters your claims, you ignore it or claim I am ignorant or do not know what I am talking about when I AM an expert in this area. YOU, who do not use Apple products, are NOT.

[Deagle]

Okay, I’ll let your statements that Apple users do NOT overpay for any add on devices... Really, do you believe that? If so, I will succumb to your statements. Does that make you feel better? Does that make your statements true?

[Deagle]

You know, I have just had a troubling thought...

What is the world stopped today - no electricity, no TV, no internet... how would we survive. You youngsters would have to depend upon the older generation just to show you how to survive. Does that not wake you up just a bit? So many of toady’s generation have no idea what to do under duress.

I’m afraid for the future and rightfully so - our generation today thinks that without the internet and computers, they would be lost.

Just how many still know the art of farming or survival techniques. I would guess that it would be very few and those are the future generations of our world. Scary isn’t it...?

You are all worried about Apple and computers without regard to the power needed to run them. How about if we lost all capability to generate enough power to keep the going.

Not to worry though, it just could NOT happen! Think again.
Really bad times are coming...

Not a problem, this will probably be my last warning...since the Federal Government is now trying to take over the internet through Executive Order (I’m sure none of you have heard about it).

Maybe I’m watching too much Glenn Beck (for all those that are skeptical)...heh.

[RegulatorCountry]

If your concern centers upon some future dystopia, likely or not, I’d suggest acquiring a greater level of familiarity with old tech, like analog, vacuum tubes and cathode ray tubes, lol. They won’t “fry” as easily with EMP and the bar is much lower as far as manufacture.

[Swordmaker]

Okay, I’ll let your statements that Apple users do NOT overpay for any add on devices... Really, do you believe that? If so, I will succumb to your statements. Does that make you feel better? Does that make your statements true?

Yes, I believe it... because it happens to be my experience and it happens to be true.

Why wouldn't they be? Look, I just bought a 1.5 TB drive USB2 external drive for my 24" IMac... . Why should it cost anymore than any 1.5TB USB2 external drive for a PC? IT didn't. The 1.5TB drive was $109. Says on the box it came in PC/Mac. They didn't add on any extra cause it was going to be used on a Mac or even ask me if I was going to plug it into a Mac.

Last month I bought a Samsung Color Laser All-in-one printer/Scanner/Fax ... cost me $250... again, it would have cost me $250 whether I plugged it into my iMac or into my Dell Inspiron. Says on the box... WindowsXP, Vista, Windows7 or Mac OSX. It made NO DIFFERENCE on the price. Two weeks ago, at Fry's I bought a new Logitech USB trackball to replace my twelve year old one I've now used on three successive Macs... the old one still works but it looks a bit grungy. It was $25.95... marked down from $49.95. It doesn't even say it works with the Mac... but it does. I just plugged it in.

You are swallowing the hype that 1> there are Apple peripherals, 2> these mythical peripherals cost a lot more, 3> Mac users are ignorant boobs who waste their money on glitz.

[Swordmaker]

You youngsters would have to depend upon the older generation just to show you how to survive.

Youngster? I told you earlier, that I will be 61 next week. How old are you, Deagle?

[Tribune7]

Way to go Jobs. As he gets older he seems to be getting more conservative.

[RegulatorCountry]

Well, oddly enough and perhaps motivated by a completely different set of priorities, “green” instead of survivalist, Apple at one point had a manual generator for recharging laptops. They may still, but I haven’t seen it lately. Personal solar panels exist for that purpose, too, flexible so they can be rolled up, highly portable, less than $300.00.

We have frequent power outage here, due to ice storms in winter and severe thunderstorms or remnants of hurricanes in summer. I’ve got an array of things to make a household temporarily off-grid liveable. It’s really not that hard to do, and really not that expensive. The biggest chunk of change is wiring for a generator panel and the generator itself. Well pump, a few lights, hot water and refrigeration is all you really *need* because everything else can be handled separately. Cooking? Gas grill, nearly everybody has one. Heat? Wood stove or fireplace. As far as A/C, we survived without it less than a generation ago, sweat it out. Cost is too great to encompass powering that for most people.

L.L. Bean makes a great little hand-cranked multiband radio with LED flashlight, not expensive at all. Several online retailers sell manual well pumps. Refrigeration itself is comparatively recent as far as home use. Revert to other, time-tested preservation methods such as canning, pickling, or curing with antimicrobials like salt, sugar or smoke. My own grandmother dried apples from her own small orchard, watched her do it. Not hard to figure out, just time consuming.

Time is something we’ll have plenty of, if all the electronic distraction contraptions fall by the wayside.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

I bought a used HW-2036A 2-meter FM transceiver when I got my Tech class HAM radio license in 1979.

I had to add a 100 Hz sub-audible tone (CTCSS) generator to be able to access the repeaters. But once I did, what fun!

Those were the days.

I think that today the tech savvy kids are into making things work together software wise and writing application software. Maybe they may get started building a couple of simple circuits (usually using 555 timer ICs) from Radio Shack. But for serious applications they make use of the hardware that is already out there (why design and build a display and front panel when laptop computers are available, for instance...)

Even in the "good old days" we were still dependent on the right transistor being available - I still remember (after a few seconds) the 40673 MOSFET transistor that I had to replace in the front end of the Heathkit shortwave receiver I had built.

I was always more of a hardware person myself. But even a lot of the hardware gurus that I know (electrical engineers) got into programming micro-controllers with the major processing power and on-board circuitry already available at far cheaper than what even your time alone is worth to even try to build it, and any misc. electronic parts and soldering is to interface that circuit to the rest of the world. The technology evolves over time.

http://www.nutsvolts.com/

Nuts and Volts is a good publication for the current state of the modern electronics hobbyist.

[Tribune7]

If you really, really want to use your iPhone to find porn you can do it.

You just can't develop an app specifically to do so.

Maybe you think FR is fascist because it won't let you post porn threads.

[Tribune7]

I don’t think a libertarian would be so outraged at what Jobs wants to do with his property.

[Tribune7]

If you are looking for a conservative writer try Dean Koontz.

[RegulatorCountry]

Koontz does have a few digs in against the collectivist mindset, in every one of his novels. Dog lover, too, he loved his Trixie and I think still grieves for her. I believe I have read nearly every one of his books. Very entertaining for the sci-fi, psychological thriller genre fan. He veers into the mystical frequently as well, with a Christian element, albeit not overt.

[Tribune7]

And he certainly supports the Second Amendment :-)

[dennisw]

Apple is a company that slants its advertising towards women. Women don't like porn because they view it as competition for their man's attention. Guys either like porn or don't mind it.

So of course Jobs is going to placate and suck up to one his prime demographics. The ladies. In Steve's own little world I am sure sure he is not anti-porn. He's no righteous crusader. He's a money grubber selling mystique and over priced products to a mesmerized following. Same as Barrack Obama did to get elected.  Just like Obama, Apple's prime demographics do not include normal heterosexual white guys. Apple aims its advertising at --

1. gays
2. urban hipster types (think goatees, latte coffees and artisanal food)
3. students  --    young skulls full of mush
4. women ---->>     meaning technophobes. Uncle Stevie is there to hold their hands
5. perpetual students of post college age whose fragile egos need a good propping up. Stevie Jobs provides this.
6. artistic types (You don't have to be employed as an artiste, you just have to think you are one)
7. You will never see an Apple advertisement showing a farmer or rancher using an Apple ipad or Apple anything. 
8. How about an Apple advertisement showing a businessman using an Apple desktop or laptop?