Apple worried for getting sued for 3rd party app content

This is one of the key motivations behind the creation of a peer-review system, such as the one used by Xbox Live Indie Games: <a href="http://creators.xna.com/en-US/review_detail" rel="nofollow">http://creators.xna.com/en-US/review_detail</a><p>By not approving games ourselves (in fact, Microsoft employees are banned from even looking at un-reviewed games), we achieve some sort of legal protections (which I lack the vocabulary to describe).<p>This process also scales better than a central review board model. Indie Games doesn't need that scale yet, but the back-end is generic enough to be used with other user created content which might demand the scale: <a href="http://creators.rockband.com/" rel="nofollow">http://creators.rockband.com/</a>

This could set an interesting precedent.<p>If Apple is going to say that it is not responsible for content in iPhone applications then that could mean that the review process will have to be relaxed. And that the SDK agreement will have to be changed.<p>Because right now they do look in detail at content in applications and numerous apps have been rejected based on their usage of copyrighted content.