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).

The Android Market is not great but its kept honest since it embraces an open market system by allowing other independent markets and means to acquire Android apps.

So if it teeters on becoming a cess pool or inundated with adult/crap applications then people can go elsewhere, thus to hedge this from happening it allows Android users to have a voice in voting and notifying which applications should be reviewed.

Google will then review the application within 3 days and remove it – this has only been an issue to date of approximately 1% of all Android applications.

In a way the Android Market becomes a sort of Statue of Liberty for applications, adopting a similar credo etched onto the statue itself, “Keep your ancient lands, your storied pomp! Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The rules Apple applies become even more nebulous since it has undefined constraints to applications that independent developers devote time and money toward before ultimately getting rejected while FHM, Sports Illustrated, & Playboy get a pass.

What choice do you have comrade since the politburo at Apple knows whats best for you and doesn’t need any checks and balances since the App Store is the ONLY means of acquiring apps for the iPhone.

The iPhone also made sure it has its own Berlin Wall blocking out Flash to secure its grip over any possible means of acquiring or using unapproved applications.

An interesting possible explanation of this is from PC World arguing that Apple’s plan is to secure children first by getting them hooked on the iPod as a sort of gateway drug and then they can graduate to the iPhone before ultimately using the iPad as an educational resource – as such it can’t sully this environment with adult material.

So the iPhone is a sort of Disney phone keeping people locked in a sort of Never Never Land, but I prefer the more “exciting and titillating” rides at Six Flags so I will go with an Android phone.

Android of Liberty is Made for Adults

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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.

What I think will further drive game developers to Android is Apple’s new policy of AUTOMATICALLY removing your application from the App Store if a competitor issues a formal complaint.

This happened recently with AppVault Pro being removed from the App Store due simply to the request of AllAboutApps, who developed AppBox Pro.

Now there should be some copyright protection and copycat protection, but this didn’t seem to be the case.

The way Apple handled this without investigating and simply pulling the app should dissuade developers from the dictation of Apple to the more openly handled Android Market plus the other Android application distribution systems.

This should make developers like Ray Wenderlich at App Vault think more about concentrating on or at least divvying their focus toward Android, although free phones does help

Android Gamers Play

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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.

This alternative to the Android Market in fact includes the current front runner of adult sexual Android applications with the infamous Dildroid vibrator app.

On the less vibrating & NON adult side with today being Cyber Monday a week after Android Monday there is a 50% off sale on Android applications here at GoogleAndBlog.

• Eye Candy
• Fun and Games
• Adult News
• Erotica
• Porn Stars
• Social (?)

The SOCIAL section could be an onerous one as it could lead to direct calling for adult services & predatory dating.

Now will adult industry heavyweights such as Playboy & Vivid follow suit or will this yin & yang effect hamper Android in achieving a broader appeal over the iPhone?

Will Porn for Android Determine the Mobile Format Winner?

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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.

This became apparent with the Halloween decoration of the Droid statue as there was a tombstone next to it with the inscription of RIP Petit Four as I originally thought it was for the Droid dog statue that was stolen.

Jean-Baptiste Queru notified me that the 1.1 release was actually called Petit Four before the Android team settled on the alphabetic pastry naming pattern.

So here is to more Android birthdays which will continue to add more pastry statues outside the GooglePlex.

Happy Birthday Google Android!

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Over the weekend news of the Cease & Desist from Google to Steve Kondik AKA Cyanogen over his popular Android Mods raised concerns about how open Android is.

In summation Google openly allows modifications to Android as well rooting of phones with Android on them but providing non-Android Google proprietary applications such as YouTube, GMail, GTalk, etc in Android modifications publicly is not allowed due to relatively loose manufacturer & carrier agreements.

The knee-jerk reaction I am sure is that novices will declare that Android is thus not truly open with already ridiculous declarations that Window Mobile is more open.

Google is in communication with Cyanogen as Steve has already posted on Twitter that he may have a solution with his Mods that is agreeable with Google which may somehow block them from working on non-Google experience phones or not have the Google applications altogether.

If Google does not end up giving him a job as an Android engineer than they at least should provide him with this supposed Android Mascot from Google Japan.

Danny Choo this weekend claims to be giving away 10 of these little key chain Android figurines which he states are worth 5,356 US dollars on Ebay.

Why so much money for this little trinket that seems like something you would find in a bubble gym machine?

Seems it has some high tech Japanese super powers

“The head spins, arms move and the legs wiggle from side to side. Its solar powered and when fully charged will walk around on the desk and occasionally leap up 25 meters into the air when you shake its left arm.  Also, if you swallow it, it will come out the other end in camouflage brown or bright orange.”

Not only is it solar powered and can jump a quarter a football field but it seems it may come with a scantily clad voluptuous Japanimation figurine & handcuffs as a bewildering added touch.

Where is the Cease & Desist on this Android “mod”?

Google Japan Android Mascot a Peace Offering for Cyanogen

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