Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, silence about one of the potentially most lucrative and controversial uses of its hand-held jewel: porn.
The technological feats that the 3G iPhone can perform are key to the coming pornocopia. To date, mobile porn has consisted largely of still images, racy text chat services and so-called “moan-tones,” which are sultry-sounding ringtones.
In Europe there is an active market for video chatting; customers pay $50 a month on average to exchange dirty messages with actresses. But now, thanks in large part to the iPhone’s video dexterity, short clips are becoming a staple for the mobile porn business. The speed promised by iPhone 2.0 is much anticipated.
Google Trends, which measures Web buzz, shows a sharp increase over the past year in the popularity of the term “iPhone porn.”
Leading porn purveyors see the iPhone as a dream come true. Its relatively ample screen size, speedy Web access and ease of use are just part of it. The device’s miniaturized version of Apple’s Safari software simplifies mobile access and streamlines the process of tailoring dirty sites for optimal viewing on the go.
“It’s by far the porn-friendliest phone,” says Devan Cypher, spokesperson for San Francisco-based Sin City Entertainment. As evidence of the gadget’s rocketing popularity in California’s porn capital, the San Fernando Valley, numerous iPhone-specific porn sites have been launched in recent months.
“There are a few hundred iPhone porn sites now in use,” says Farley Cahen, vice president of business development for AVN Media Network, the adult industry’s trade body. Many others are currently in the works targeting iPhone 2.0, which goes on sale July 11.
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