Mike Cane has just posted about an issue that I think we all need to pay attention to: one of the drones at the Apple App Store has taken it upon himself to reject a comic book. I’ll let Mike set up the scenario…

Recently I raved about a revolutionary new program called Comic Reader. This program was to be used to premiere a comic book called Murderdrome.

From the title alone, you expect it not to be all bunnies and unicorns and rainbows.

But this is a comic book. A work of drawing and word balloons. It is imaginary. It is fiction.

It was submitted to the Apple App Store and the publishers received notice that it was being rejected for violating terms of the Software Developer Kit which states:

Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.

Well now wait a minute here.

Murderdrome is not an “application,” Comic Reader is. Murderdrome is content that can be read via the Comic Reader application.

Murderdrome is a book.

Apple has just banned a book.

Mike’s right. And you know what? I have a huge problem with the banning of any book…

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I haven’t got an iPhone 3G, instead I bought an Nokia E71 (review pending) and I couldn’t be happier. I did however update my iPod Touch to the latest 2.0 firmware, and have downloaded a few apps which are pretty cool. With my Touch I get all of the benefits of the iPhone, except for the ability to surf the web and make calls while out and about. Or can I?

Some of you may have heard of Joiku, but for those who haven’t it’s a small application that you load onto a Nokia phone that instantly turns it into a mobile hotspot. That’s right, you can hookup your laptop, or in this case iPod, to your phone over WiFi, no messy Bluetooth or cable connections necessary. I downloaded it to my E71 (right on the phone), and gave it a whirl today, and I have to say it works, very very well.

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This evening I gave the new Pwnage utility a try on my freshly 2.0ed iPod Touch, and I thought I’d post the screenshots I took of the process, for those you you who like to know what should be happening when you do it

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Here’s a quick way to keep yourself updated on the latest new applications added (and updated) to the Apple iPhone Apps Store. These RSS feeds are a handy way to see what’s new at a glance.

New Applications
Updated Applications
Top 100 Free Applications
Top 100 Paid Applications

PinchMedia via JustAnotherIphoneBlog

We’ve been exchanging somewhat excited messages internally at Geardiary for the last hour or two. Both Dan and I have upgraded our iPhones to version 2.0 firmware thanks to instructions found at MacRumors (worked like a charm - NOT available for Touch though). There’s honestly not much to see until you dive into the App Store. Once I saw what was available. How easy it was to download. And drove home listening to streaming AOL Radio via EDGE (no rebuffering whatsoever) it hit me. RIM, Palm and those software distributors that base large amounts of their livelihood on their platforms should be afraid (Between you and me, what I really said was they should be “wearing adult diapers”). I think the iPhone message over the next week is going to be all about the App Store and what’s available there. Dan has a quick run down of what he has discovered so far.

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