Another week, another royal screw-up at Apple when it comes to fairly approving submitted iPhone apps. In this week’s episode we have Eucalyptus, a new e-book reader that specializes in accessing public domain works, much like Stanza, which is popular and long-approved. Why was Eucalyptus refused entry? Prepare yourself:
Because you can download a Victorian-era translated edition of the Kama Sutra. What’s extremely important here is that Eucalyptus doesn’t ship with a copy of the book. Instead, the user would have to search for the book and initiate a download. You know, like how Stanza works. With this logic, Apple should be pulling their own Safari browser off the iPhone as you could potentially type ‘midget porn’ into Google search.
This whole debacle is well-documented at the developer’s site. He’s quite upset, having spent a year of his life on the project and he has every right to be. Apple needs to get their act together.
