You might as well face it: The world's addicted to Apple.
Even if you're sick of the TV commercials and the hype, you have to deal with iPods, iPhones and Macintosh computers.
Why? Because even though PCs still dominate computer sales overall, plenty of people use Apple devices to look at porn. If you're not up-to-date, you may be missing out on a huge audience.
After all, the iPhone is "by far the porn-friendliest phone," Sin City Entertainment's Devan Cypher told Time magazine. (Yes, Time magazine. Things sure have changed, haven't they?)
Here are some tips about how to make the most of the Apple universe regardless of whether you own any of its products:
• You Don't Need to Worry About Apps
Software applications known as "apps" are responsible for much of the iPhone's buzz. (They're also available on the iPod touch, which is essentially an iPhone without the phone.)
They do a variety of neat things, from allowing users to read Kindle books to telling you what song is playing in the background at a restaurant. But one thing they don't do is porn.
Blame Apple. It's uptight about what gets on the iPhone, although apps that make fart sounds are totally OK. In fact, a few months ago it bounced a book app because it allowed access to the Kama Sutra.
The lesson: In the porn world, apps are (probably) not your friend. But there's an exception, and that's the browser program known as Safari. That leads us to our next tip.
• You Do Need to Worry About Safari
If you rely on a PC, maybe you use Firefox or Google Chrome like all the hip webmasters. Perhaps you're still with the fossilized Internet Explorer (in which case we send our sympathies).
Whatever the case, some of your users will visit your site through Apple's browser, known as Safari. And anyone who uses an iPhone to view your content will use it.
If you're using a PC, you can't access your site through Safari, right? Wrong! Safari is actually available on PCs for free, so it's easy to see how your content looks to Mac aficionados.
On iPhones and iPod touches, Safari allows porn seekers to find X-rated content without having to deal with Apple's adult-unfriendly policies.
Just a few weeks ago, Apple announced a third generation of iPhones with a bunch of new features. You probably won't have much use for many of them (like the compass), but you might want to visit iPorn.com to get ideas about tinkering with your mobile site to take advantage of the new features.
Among other things, iPorn.com promises to take advantage of improvements in the iPhone's touch screen and the accelerometer, which flips the view on the screen to landscape mode when you move it around.
Meanwhile, Pink Visual plans to experiment with 3-D video for iPhones at its iPinkVisual.com site, whose motto is: "We innovate, you masturbate." Catchy!
• Check Out Apple's Awesome Photo Software
Maybe you're quite happy to be working on a PC. More power to you. But Apple's photo software may make you change your mind, especially if you're trying to corral 15,000 photos of lovely ladies without any clothes on.
Apple's iPhoto program, which comes with new Macs and is available as part of a package of software for $79, allows you to easily sort photos by people's faces. You don't even have to tell the software where the faces are: It will detect them for you.
This is especially handy if you're looking for all shots on your hard drive of a particular model but didn't do a good job of labeling them. Just fire up the iPhoto program and click on the Faces feature.
The program can even create a "Smart Album" that will automatically gather in one place all photos of a particular person.
The big question: Will this work for body parts other than faces? Could you, for example, try to collect all photos of unshaved ladyparts or uncut cocks? Try it and let us know.
Another handy feature in iPhoto is the ability to sort photos by the place they were taken. Let's say the pictures from last May's outdoor shoot ended up all over your hard drive, and they all have different names. You might spend hours looking for them all. Or just go into iPhoto and click on Places to move all the photos from the shoot to one place. There's a catch: You need a GPS-equipped camera or an iPhone to get the most out of this feature.
• In Summary
Macs, iPods, and iPhones aren't for everyone. They're expensive and just too darned hip for some people to tolerate. But if you reach out to people who use them, you're guaranteed to make a bigger impact and, if you're lucky, a bigger profit.
This article originally appeared in the August 2009 issue of AVN Online. To subscribe, visit AVNMediaNetwork.com/subscribe.
