Playboy launches on iPad - but as a web-app rather than a native app

People will read it for the articles, right?

Playboy has launched an iPad subscription service that offers uncensored digitised copies of every issue the magazine has ever published.

How did it sneak past Apple's approvals team? It didn't - the service is an iPad-friendly website rather than a native app, meaning no approval was required.

Playboy announced its plans for the service in January this year, saying at the time that it was working with Bondi Digital Publishing on the venture, while simultaneously working on a 'non-nude' native iPad app.

The service can be accessed at i.playboy.com, and costs $8 a month to subscribe to, although annual and bi-annual options are also available for $60 and $100 respectively.

It promises every issue - including every photo-shoot and article. And as we all know, the articles were the main reason people bought Playboy back in its heyday.