This is an application that Apple would have preferred to banish, but which managed to pass between the meshes of the net. The iPhone recently authorized the download of a very controversial application.
An application that could not be more controversial is now downloadable from your iPhone. Apple, who did everything to delete it, could not do anything to prevent its users from having access to it. Entitled “Hot Tub”, the software has made its way despite the anger of the American brand, which said “Deeply concerned about the risks for safety ” towards its users, through a press release.
Available since the beginning of February, “Hot Tub” has had a shock wave in Apple premises. Between concern, fury and scandal, the new application is definitely not welcome to iPhone. However, impossible for the American firm to abolish it, due to European laws “Who may not share our user safety concerns”.
If Apple is as much in pesting, it is because “Hot Tub” is none other than a pornographic application. Free and without advertisements, it can be directly downloaded from your iPhone. A type of software that the American firm has always sought to banish on its devices, thus respecting its values and “His moral responsibility “according to Steve Jobs’ words, its founder.
Despite Apple’s guideline, “Hot Tub” is indeed available for download and even presents itself as “The first porn app approved by Apple”. A name that the company immediately denied, ensuring that it was “Landy statements”.
If “Hot Tub” is still on the App Store despite the controversy aroused, it is because Apple cannot legally prohibit it on its devices. In fact, the pornographic application is not directly downloadable from the Appstore Apps store but on a competitor, Altstore.
Alstore not belonging to the American brand, it is impossible for the latter to affix its right of veto against the software. It is also impossible for Apple to ban Altstore, since European laws authorize the presence of third -party application stores alongside the AppStore, compliance with competition requires.
“Hot Tub” is, so to speak, untouchable. Apple has no choice but to remain helpless and preserve the pornographic application on its iPhone. The apple brand has not failed to deplore this situation, indicating that the presence of such software may “Soft consumer confidence in our ecosystem, which we have worked for more than a decade to become the best in the world”. In order to satisfy its users, Apple did not fail to specify that it would never integrate “Hot Tub” on its AppStore.