iPhone Porn 2.0: Here We Go Again

June 20, 2008
DASHIELL

In case you haven't already heard, July 11th is the first day of the rest of your life. That's the day iPhone 3G 2.0: Electric Cellphone Boogaloo will descend from the heavens and bathe us all in the healing light of subsidized mobile interweb global positioning touch screen perfection. But what does that really mean for you, exactly? Lots and lots of porn, of course! Adult content producers are salivating at the idea of providing you with smut on the go, and the mainstream media is fairly frothing at the mouth just yapping about it. The world has changed, people!

Except ... didn't we go through all this last year?

Porn sites that cater to the iPhone have been around since before the first model even launched, and while they'll load a little faster now there's nothing new or unique about them. And let's not forget that mobile porn has been heating up Europe and Asia for years without any help from Apple, thank you very much. So the business of sending people porn via their mobile phone is fundamentally still the same.

Most importantly, the porn itself hasn't changed. It's still people fucking, only smaller—and since you can't jerk off on the subway (yet) having all this filth on the go isn't as helpful as it might seem. The most interesting and clever development to rise out of the iPhone technology is still RubMyClit. Come up with something to top that and then maybe we'll have something to get more excited about.

· "The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn" + "Turning the iPhone into the xxxPhone" (time.com)