Best Way to Compete with Apple
By By David Volk November 24, 2010
This article originally appeared in the December 2010 issue of Seattle magazine.
If its true that one mans meat is another mans poison and one mans floor is another mans ceiling, then Apples decision to ban sexy apps from iPhones could prove to be good news for the Android.
Lets face it. Geeks like sex, but sometimes the only way they can get it is on the internet. The trouble is, theres always a lap, but there isnt always a laptop around when you need one.
Once Apple handed down the pronouncement that it was banning apps featuring bikini-wearing or otherwise scantily clad women, the Seattle-based app reviewing/selling site AppstoreHQ said it would help developers of racy apps get the word out.
True to its AppstoreHQs word, the week that TechFlash covered the story, the list of the sites hottest apps included Playboy and Sports Illustrated. Oddly enough, the other top hot apps were NASA Lunar Rover simulator, Flick Fishing and PMS Buddy, a service that warns clueless guys when the women in their lives are about to hit that time of the month.