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Jobs: Android Immoral

For all its moral and social failings, realists credit porn with driving the broad adoption of new technology, including the Internet itself. Having none of it, Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't budging on his staunch opposition to X-Rated media on the iPhone, the iPad, or any device under his control. "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone,"

Jobs writes in a letter obtained by TechCrunch. "Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone." And, while TechCrunch admits to not authenticating the letter, it notes that Jobs has drawn connections between porn and Google's Android operating system before. The blog then suggests that Jobs' posturing is all part of a high-calculated effort to portray Google as a company without values. "Jobs," it guises, "is apparently going to keep taking these jabs from what he considers to be the moral high-ground."

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