Apple's First "Approved" iPhone Porn App

 Will Apple's First "Approved" iPhone Porn App Last?

Update #2: According to the Hottest Girls application developers, popularity is the reason for the application's temporary removal from the Apple App store. Full text below:

"The Hottest Girls app is temporarily sold out. The server usage is extremely high because of the popularity of this app. Thus, by not distributing the app, we can prevent our servers from crashing. Those who already have the app will still be able to use our app. To answer the question on everyone's mind: Yes, the topless images will still be there when it is sold again. -ATG dev team"

Update: The Hottest Girls application no longer appears in searches on the App Store, although you can still access the app directly via this link. No word yet on whether this is a result of the App's content originally slipping through the cracks, a server-side content update setting off new triggers with Apple, or whether Apple is still rigidly enforcing the "no porn" guidelines it set when the App Store first premiered.
Original Post: "We uploaded topless pics today. This is the first app to have nudity," said Allen Leung in an interview with Macenstein [link semi-nsfw]. He's the developer behind the "Hottest Girls" application, currently bringing scantily-clad women--and now those of the bare-chested variety--to your iPhone or iPod Touch device for a mere $2 installation fee.
I suppose that's something to brag about but, if anything, Leung should be boasting about his ability to sneak a quick one past Apple's App watchdogs. I haven't spoken to Leung myself, but I'm willing to bet the farm that his application does little more than pull images from a specified directory or URL list online. In that sense, he hasn't "debuted the first official iPhone porn app" so much as he has just uploaded some naked pictures in addition to the Apple-sanctioned, two-piece wearing bikini shots that he threw in when submitting "Hottest Girls" for approval.
The publicity he's drumming up for the story--this piece of writing included--will no doubt alert Apple to the issue and get Leung's app taken off the App Store. That still doesn't do much to erase the lingering authorization issues that have plagued Apple's review process since its handheld devices first met the third-party development world. To put it gently, did Apple really not see this one coming?
Tweeting the F-Bomb
It's hard to believe given Apple's track record with what's allowed and what's forbidden on the App Store. Consider Tweetie: An update for this popular Twitter client was initially rejected by Apple merely because some users on Twitter--somebody think of the children--were filling their 140-character statements with naughty words. To Apple, that was equal to Tweetie using the profanity itself. Although Apple eventually relented in this case and let the Tweetie update pass through, it hasn't been quite as compromising with others.