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[The Faceless Master]

Back in September of 2008 I said that Android’s strength had nothing to do with the OS’s innate “sexiness”, in that it didn’t need to have the iPhone’s sex appeal in order for it to succeed. But maybe I was wrong. Maybe what it needs to truly take off is sex, period.

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Early last week, startup MiKandi launched a 3rd-party app store for Android phones which will allow any developer to sell adult-oriented content for the Google Android platform, which includes devices such as the Verizon/Motorola DROID, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and the Samsung Moment/HTC Hero on Sprint.

So far, there isn’t much in terms of raciness to look at on MiKandi. The app store has only just been released for 3rd-parties to “plug in”, so to speak. As of today, it only has a single demo app, Dildroid, which controls the intensity of an Android device’s vibrator function.

What’s important here, however, is not what applications MiKandi offers now but what it promises for the future, which is the ability for there to be MANY independent app stores for Android phones, which could be targeted towards different industries and audiences.

What’s to stop Mikandi from using their same app store platform that they might use to distribute porn for say, religious material? Or sports-oriented content? Or cooking and restaurant related material? Or for scientific and academic purposes? Or ebooks?

The prospects for expanding into diversified markets on Android are larger than on any other mobile platform available today, because “censoring” or rigorous and controlled app approval processes tied to a single vendor — such as those that exist on the iPhone — do not exist on the Android platform. And they probably never will.

Sure, it’s possible and perhaps even inevitable that eventually Google’s own Android Market may decide for the sake of quality control to start evaluating applications, and might want to keep Adult material off its own app store, which ships by default with every device. Which is perfectly understandable, since even kids are getting smartphones now.

It might even make sense to embed parental controls or a system policy (like those that can be deployed on BlackBerry) which would allow the user or organization to prevent certain types of “rated” content or apps from being installed on the device or block third party app stores from being installed on the unit. If I were a corporation and were rolling the device out to thousands of employees, I wouldn’t want them looking at porn on company time. It would also make sense to create some sort of open standard which allows Android apps to be tagged or rated which flags them as adult material.

However, because Android is an open system and allows the ability for 3rd-party app installation (a feature that currently you have to turn on in the system Settings to enable) there’s nothing to stop premium Adult content providers, such as Playboy, Penthouse and Vivid from working with companies like MiKandi to provide quality produced erotica for mobile.

It’s also entirely possible that these companies and others could also license Mikandi’s platform (or someone else’s) to launch app stores of their own so they can control the quality or flavor of what they produce. I can certainly see the emergence of gay and lesbian-oriented app stores, or even fetish-specialized, which are targeted towards specific audiences and tastes.

The freedoms of choice with Android would be unlimited. Want to see attractive Asian (or Russian) women (or men) dress up as nurses (or lumberjacks) and engaging in a specific act? Tagging features and “channels” will allow you to select from thousands of apps to find exactly what you want. The very same tagging technology could be used for purposes OTHER than pornography, but it will be porn that drives the technology and the apps to the maturity level needed to do everything else that every regular Android consumer needs.

What I see occurring with Android is not unlike how other technologies were advanced by the adult industry, such as VHS tapes, DVD video, and streaming Internet multimedia and content distribution. It can be argued that NONE of these technologies would have been so heavily adopted if it wasn’t for the Adult film and content industry embracing their openness, a quality that is shared by Android and its ability to run 3rd-party content without restriction. The YouTube clips and Vimeos that you enjoy of your pets and kids doing cute and completely innocent things? You’ve got porn to thank for it.

Will porn help Android mature as a mobile content and application delivery platform? Talk Back and Let Me Know.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11685

i dunno if porn is enough...

 

[Zozz]

Just watched porn on my droid last night and my iphone, it's called a browser.

 

[fistfulofmetal]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11685

i dunno if porn is enough...

well look what it did during the vhs vs betamax battle.

 

[Haly]

Dildroid :lol :lol :lol

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Aye, who HASN'T gone to porngrid on their iPhone?

 

[Torhthelm Tídwald]

Can't these phones already access the internet?

 

[MilesWebber]

Aye, who HASN'T gone to porngrid on their iPhone?

Me.

Edit: Okay I did.

 

[The S-Word]

swear i saw a gay manga on the thing

 

[border]

The YouTube clips and Vimeos that you enjoy of your pets and kids doing cute and completely innocent things? You’ve got porn to thank for it.

As far as I can remember, Flash-based embedded video was pioneered by the likes of YouTube long before pornographers ever started using it. Even now, most of the Flash-sites are dedicated to wholesale copyright infringement more than they are actual distribution.

 

[jts]

Aye, who HASN'T gone to porngrid on their iPhone?

Me. Pornhub on the other hand...

 

[The Faceless Master]

The YouTube clips and Vimeos that you enjoy of your pets and kids doing cute and completely innocent things? You’ve got porn to thank for it.

As far as I can remember, Flash-based embedded video was pioneered by the likes of YouTube long before pornographers ever started using it. Even now, most of the Flash-sites are dedicated to wholesale copyright infringement more than they are actual distribution.

indeed, all the big legit porn sites *just* started using flash video this year.

 

[Jado]

The YouTube clips and Vimeos that you enjoy of your pets and kids doing cute and completely innocent things? You’ve got porn to thank for it.

As far as I can remember, Flash-based embedded video was pioneered by the likes of YouTube long before pornographers ever started using it. Even now, most of the Flash-sites are dedicated to wholesale copyright infringement more than they are actual distribution.

And a lot of sites had names and web layouts that completely ripped off the look of Youtube.

 

[jts]

And a lot of sites had names and web layouts that completely ripped off the look of Youtube.

He bolded that text but meant to quote it. It's on the OP article.

 

[Darkman M]

swear i saw a gay manga on the thing

 

[ralphwiggum]

Aye, who HASN'T gone to porngrid on their iPhone?

I, Sir, would like to thank you. The extent to which my life has now been improved is quite unimaginable. I hope you live a long life and one day soon win a large sum of money.

 

[Corwood Rep]

This article is kind of reaching, first because porn's days of advancing tech are over - it doesn't sell like it used to and going forward it's going to be completely dominated by youtube ripoffs and piracy - and second, because the iPhone has access to a multitude of porno streaming sites. Nobody's gonna buy adult content on a phone, they're just gonna go to pornhub.

 

[moist]

The YouTube clips and Vimeos that you enjoy of your pets and kids doing cute and completely innocent things? You’ve got porn to thank for it.

As far as I can remember, Flash-based embedded video was pioneered by the likes of YouTube long before pornographers ever started using it. Even now, most of the Flash-sites are dedicated to wholesale copyright infringement more than they are actual distribution.

While it wasn't flash based this does bring up memories of the vivo activeplayer from back in the day.

 

[itxaka]

Aye, who HASN'T gone to porngrid on their iPhone?

Me.


Flash sucks on the iphone so no streaming porn

Spoiler

yes, I need some URLs of streming porn for the iphone, sue me

EDIT: oh wow, WTF porngrid is awesome. Thanks man!

 

[Tamanon]

Me.


Flash sucks on the iphone so no streaming porn

Spoiler

yes, I need some URLs of streming porn for the iphone, sue me

pornhub streams using QT.

 

[Manmademan]

While it wasn't flash based this does bring up memories of the vivo activeplayer from back in the day.

wasn't that just streaming video? Man I used to HATE that thing

 

[Suikoguy]

This article is kind of reaching, first because porn's days of advancing tech are over - it doesn't sell like it used to and going forward it's going to be completely dominated by youtube ripoffs and piracy - and second, because the iPhone has access to a multitude of porno streaming sites. Nobody's gonna buy adult content on a phone, they're just gonna go to pornhub.

Well, you have to look at the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD battle, clearly the porn industry is the kingmaker....

oh wait

 

[IronFistedChampion]

Me. Pornhub on the other hand...

.

 

[Why For?]

thanks for the new iPhone porn sites guys...