Boys, the long wait is over. Dirty apps, complete with nudity and all sorts of mature content, are now allowed at the App Store. First one to break the cherry is an app called "Hottest Girls", which includes "2,200+ images of topless, sexy babes and nude models."
The change in App Store policy comes as a part of the iPhone OS 3.0 update, which now includes a facility for implementing age restrictions in applications running on the handset. As such, "Hottest Girls" is an approved app, duly marked as "rated 17+" for "frequent/intense sexual content or nudity".
Not that the $1.99 adults-only app is any more interesting than staring at a wall. It's just a small piece of software that displays a bunch of photos according to categories, with no real special functionality whatsoever (save for a ratings facility that will supposedly drive future content). You may as well just visit a free adult hosting domain and take a gander at the stuff they have to offer. As the first official adults-only iPhone title, though, the creator should be looking at some decent money from people downloading it for the novelty value alone.
Expect big things from major adult content providers, who finally have a lucrative mobile platform for promoting one of the web's biggest and longest-running industries. Will the other download services (e.g. App World, Android Market) follow suit?
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