Just last week, Apple released notice of the long awaited iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit). This SDK allow’s third-party developers to create programs that will run on the iPhone itself, not just web applications.
“We’re excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community with potentially thousands of native applications for iPhone and iPod touch,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO
As part of the announcement Jobs listed a few categories of applications that would not be allowed on the iPhone. The most important category restriction in my opinion is pornography. That’s right, Apple will not distribute software for the iPhone that allows the viewing of pornography.
The mental, and societal impact of viewing pornography cannot be understated, and I applaud Apple and Jobs for taking this stance against such material.
This update will also add another important feature and that is parental controls. Parents will be able to disable iPhone features such as Safari, the App Store or YouTube to restrict access to these programs.
Thanks for Empowering Decency Apple!
-Gavin
Credits to PC Mag for the information contained within this post. View their article here.
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