If anything has been shown by the last month, Apple needs to be an honest broker in the App Store.
I can understand the tenuous but poorly explained reasons to reject cartoon violence in Murderdrome but their recent rejection of Podcaster has me flummoxed. This is an application which does not duplicate the podcasts download section of iTunes because, unlike iTunes, it permits downloading over the air rather than requiring a re-sync (and with the recent re-appearance of the age long backup this is doubly frustrating).
John Gruber writes about developer concerns:
If you only find out at the end of the development process that your app has been rejected — not for a technical problem that you can address but because Apple deems the entire concept to be out of bounds — then who is going to put serious time and talent into an iPhone app?
Meanwhile, Apple let this shit through:
According to Apple, the staff who deal with developers day to day have no contact with the developers. And there is no appeal process.
Apple, can’t you see how this is wrong?