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Slightly related: the adult business is being rejected by Google play and the app store. I think some big co should sell a modified android phone (like telcos do) with a preinstalled adult app store. Plus it could work for other adult materials such as strong-language comedies and such.

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The engineering team from PornHub was at GoogleIO this year wearing shirts that said, "10,000,000 downloads and they still won't list us in the Play store."

Interestingly, they mentioned that they are now moving all servers and content to Google infrastructure.

>'I think some big co should sell a modified android phone (like telcos do) with a preinstalled adult app store.'

I expect that selling a porn phone would be like selling vibrators. If you really want to move the later you need to call it a neck massager.

I think plausible deniability / actual versatility is key in selling anything for which a big unstated selling point is enabling 'sex'.

Porn undoubtedly helped speed the adoption of VCRs and later Internet connected PCs, but they were sold as a way to watch Bambi with the family or for the kids to do homework.

I'd call it the phone for grownups, who don't need a nanny appstore or company deciding for them what they can or can't install.

Why its not as if anything is stopping people from installing 3rd party apps already.

iPhones make it almost impossible for regular users to install apps outside the store.

True but you also can't do what the op said and sell jailbroken iphones with your own appstore included. That's got to be some sort of violation of ToS with Apple.

I read today that there is already an "adult" store: mikandi (Highly NSFW)

You can download other app stores that are usually less strict on the requirements.

Com'on Windows Phone!

"Yeah I'd like that porn phone please"

"Sorry, I didn't quite catch that, a torn phone?"

"No, the porn phone"

"The what phone? We have a great new Samsung Galaxy-"

"THE PORN PHONE ALREADY!!"

Only, that's not how it would be bought. People would buy their porn phone online, just like they buy they porn, and their hookers, and their erotica from Amazon. Nobody (almost) walks into a Walmart to buy porn or hookers - they do so online, where it's all nicely anonymous.

Imagine how disruptive would be for porn, if Amazon decided to enter the business (as a producer).

You have a very curious mind.

Or Netflix.

I doubt that Amazon's classic strategy (Your margin is my opportunity) would be that disruptive to pornographic content.

This would ultimately end up in a dispute between Amazon and a major talent agency over pricing. More than 900 prominent porn stars would take out a $100,000 full-page ad in the New York Times to raise awareness of how they are being financially disadvantaged by Amazon's actions in the ongoing dispute.

There's a lot of erotica on the Kindle store

Robot sex?

Maybe, but you're still walking around with a porn phone in your pocket or next to your ear, marking you out to everyone in the know as the sort of person who is so into internet porn that they're willing to invest money in a device that makes getting internet porn even easier than it already is.

Why are you assuming it'd be recognizable? They would just take a popular device model and load it up with a different ROM.

I think I'd have to reassess my opinions of Walmart if they started to carry porn and hookers in-store.

I still wouldn't shop there though.

Walmart hookers? That's gross.

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