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technical media spent yesterday discussing the iPhone app store's first soft porn application.

It appears Apple has not banned "Hottest Girls" application. The app developer claims in a note on his site that the application is "sold out" due to a strain on the servers. "Hottest Girls" loads the images it displays from the developer's servers and the "popularity of this app" could crash them, he says.

The developer claims he asked Apple to temporarily suspend the sales of this app until the problem is solved. Those who already purchased the application will still be able to use it, the message to his site says.

a note on the developer's Web site indicated that he asked for the app to be removed.

As it turns out Apple did pull the app--the company confirmed the move in a statement provided to CNET on Friday.

"Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content," Apple's statement reads. "The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed, and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content. This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program. The application is no longer available on the App Store."