Playboy – Review
By App Type: Uncategorized
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By: Jump Games Private Ltd
Version #: 1.0.0 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
Date Released: 2009-12-08
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Price: 0.99
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It’s a good bet that Playboy paid Apple a ton of money to perform their recent "porn purge" of the App Store. As a result of it, Playboy magazine is the closest thing a user can get to porn from iTunes aside from the SI Swimsuit Issue and half the stuff in the music store. Due to the lack of content and choice with regards to scantily-clad females, the Playboy app is likely going to be one of the hottest sellers in the App Store for a while.
The price of the app was recently lowered to $.99 and upon review it’s amazing that they charge at all. The app simply is a placeholder for content that could likely be found on Playboy.com. There are articles and the playmates for January and February can be seen in the app (no nudity, of course) but the purchase of more issues or special content costs extra.
The app itself is fairly simplistic and doesn’t even come with that much content out of the box. There are a few articles (using even fewer words) and photo spreads (difficult to see with such a small screen). Undoubtedly this particular app will gain a huge real estate benefit from the release of the iPad.
Thanks to Apple’s need to place itself as a family-friendly company to sell the iPod touch to kids, what’s old is new again and a pornography dinosaur has been saved from complete obsolence. Now people actually will be reading Playboy for the articles.
Quick Take
Value:Low.
Would I Buy Again:Most likely not.
Learning Curve:Low.
Who Is It For:Those who can't get porn elsewhere or are actually interested in the articles.
What I Like:The women within are nice to look at.
What I Don't Like:Not much content. Have to pay for extra. Small screen space. The articles aren't that interesting.
Final Statement:Not even Hef's viagra can make this beast rise again.
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