I’d have to say I assumed Apple would take the lock down route regarding their most recent SDK release, but I have to admit I was also shocked to hear the banning of ‘Porn’.
Regardless of the reasons to avoid this from a professional opinion, the generalization of that term has been debated too many times to profess in this post. What you make thing is pornographic may not be to another person; resulting in the cliche debate, what is porn?
Bush Senior led an aggressive and failed campaign to out the industry, Spitzer made a career busting a profession that hold a similar ideal. Pornography is too easily cried wolf, and the very nature of it’s definition is loosely based on another perception. I would have thought Uncle Steve would have been understanding of the moral dilemma he’s treading, but maybe he’s as fervent a democrat as others have said and he pelts anti-violent video game propaganda too.
Rogue Amoeba’s blog review is a detailed analysis of other restrictions in the iPhone SDK.