King Apple does it again

It's one thing to reject an app because it duplicates browser functionality. Quite another to reject it because it "ridicules public figures" as with Mark Fiore's political cartoons in his NewsToons app, pictured on the left. In the meantime Apple has had a change of heart. Maybe that is due to Mark actually winning the Pulitzer Prize for his comic. So there it is folks, a "loophole" in Apple's review policy: Simply win a Pulitzer's, and you're good to go. (A Nobel Prize may work as well).

And on another note, many are becoming worried of Apple's new iAd framework on the iPhone. While Apple says it will be an opportunity for free apps to make a bit of money, people like Dave Johnson believe greed will take over, and so will the ads. And to make matters worse, there are hints that Apple will actually no longer approve apps that use other ad agencies.

There is a glimmer of hope though that Apple may at one point realize that people do actually like a bit of openness: Opera Mini is the number one app in every App-Store in the world, as the screenshot below shows: