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Android has affirmed it is the platform of liberty for adults as Apple again becomes the Big Brother determining what its iPhone users can handle.

Last week Apple with its undeclared rules are removing applications that are considered by THEM to be “overtly sexual content…there will be no more applications that are for any purpose of excitement or titillation”

The Android Market welcomed “titillation” this weekend alone with a PornHub, Strip Blackjack, and even a Sexy Feet app while adding “excitement” with the Google Earth application today (for Android 2.1).

There has been another move by an oppressive authority trying to undermine a movement first by rigging the rules, then ignoring it and now by banning the very name of the movement.

This not only applies to Iran but also in the mobile realm as Apple is that secretive dominant authority.

Apple rigs the rules of the App Store without any transparent explanation then dismisses as irrelevant Android along with some Google applications and now with the outright banning of any reference to Android.

Google offering free Android phones to gamers at the 2010 Game Developers Conference may help drive gamers to Android but maybe not as much as Apple’s new application removal policy.

Google will provide a free Nexus One or Droid to those that register for an All Access or Tutorials and Summits passes by the Early Bird deadline at the 2010 Game Developers Conference, which is smart so as to encourage more games to be produced for Android since 7 out of the top 10 Android applications are games.

Will the first free adult only Android app store by MiKandi open the door for the porn industry to shift their weight to Android and help determine the defacto mobile format as it had for the VCR & DVD?

The iPhone has only one avenue for applications with the App Store and Apple has a policy of not distributing apps that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography – this is what Sony determined for BetaMax as well in VCRs but ultimately reversed that policy for Blu-Ray.

The Open Handset Alliance for Android does not determine inappropriate content nor monopolizes application distribution.

Android turns 2 officially today as its first SDK release was made publicly available 2 years ago to the day on November 12th, 2007.

Last week on November 5th was the 2 year anniversary of the Open Handset Alliance which are the manufacturers and service providers along with Google that are behind Android.

But today November 12th is what Dan Morrill and other Android engineers consider themselves as the true birthday of Android itself.

Also interestingly before Android releases went on to the pastry naming scheme starting with Cupcake for version 1.5 there was a previous naming scheme.