Apple's porn apps, why was it pulled down?

BANGALORE, INDIA: Apple is now in a thick position of pulling a confusing controversial issue.

On Wednesday, the company tried to spice up its successful smartphone iPhone by selling its first porn application, 'Hottest Girls', from its App Store.

But if you are thinking of grabbing this app, then you will be at loss as the app was pulled down yesterday.

And the confusion is, what made Apple close down the distribution of this application?

A report by TechCrunch said that the company did not pull down the application, rather the developer behind the apps voluntarily did so.

Allen Geek, the developer behind this application has written in Apple's site that 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, they can prevent our servers from crashing, said the report.

It further added that one's who have already downloaded the application would be still able to use them.

Another report by CNN quoted an Apple spokesperson saying that the company is not responsible for the distribution of any inappropriate content and the developer behind this app put this content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed.

He further said that this act was an violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program.

So what is all this confusion about, A publicity gimmick or an inappropriate corporate decision from Apple?