iPhone Porn in 3G

Time magazine’s Jeremy Caplan is reporting that the iPhone’s next frontier will be pornography.

To date, mobile porn has consisted largely of still images, racy text services and “moan tones,"… But now, thanks in large part to the iPhone’s video dexterity, short clips are becoming a staple of the mobile porn business. The speed promised by the iPhone 2.0 is much anticipated… “It’s by far the porn-friendliest phone,” says Devan Cypher, representative for San Francisco–based Sin City Entertainment.

Apple restricts adult content in the podcast section of their iTunes Music Store, and they will apparently do the same for the upcoming iPhone/iPod Touch Application Store. But they can’t stop adult entertainment providers from supplying Websites tailored for their devices. Their main challenge in all of this is to ensure that parental controls are easy to use and very secure. As the Time article wisely points out, the last thing Apple or AT&T need here is to have a Janet Jackson Boobgate-type controversy on their hands. I’m sure the FCC will be watching very, very closely.

[Source: MacNN ]