Why is anyone surprised? Anyone choosing to develop for the AppStore is in the position of a sharecropper iin APple's Orchard. (Reg Brathwaite wrote an awsome article on this at <a href="http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard.html" rel="nofollow">http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard...</a>) The owner reserves the right to be as much of a dick as he wants to be, wrt how his land is used by the sharecroppers. That's how sharecropping works.<p>There is nothing in wrong in being a sharecropper if that is what someone wants to do, but I don't get the angst. When the owner says "jump" the correct response from a sharecropper is "How high"?
I wrote two apps for the SuicideGirls[NSFW], and one has since been removed.<p>SG is sexual, but not out right porn. Apple can do what it wants, but it kind of sucks that an entire company's branding is essentially banned or "in review" for 3 months.<p>Yes, they have Safari, but that harkens back to the web vs native app debate.<p>If only Android was the popular one...
This definitely seems capricious, and it certainly must have some chilling effect on anyone considering building an app for the iPhone. From my limited perspective as a lefty computer geek, this seems like a real blunder.<p>On the other hand, half the country lives in "fly over" America, and doesn't want to see smut or have their children subjected to smut on the iPod. So, I can see how this decision was made.