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Update: This silliness has been resolved. Common sense prevailed and Eucalyptus is now available.

Mr.Jobs, get back to work, call in the App Store staff and start firing people.

Whither Eucalyptus?

If you’re wondering why Eucalyptus is not yet available, it’s currently in the state of being ‘rejected’ for distribution on the iPhone App Store. This is due to the fact that it’s possible, after explicitly searching for them, to find, download from the Internet, and then read texts that Apple deems ‘objectionable’. The example they have given me is a Victorian text-only translation of the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.

The Kama Sutra isn't part of this beautiful Book Reader. It's downloadable from the Interwebs. It's on Macs all around the world. It can be downloaded and read using Safari.

Another over the top and arbitrary Apple App Store disgrace.
They are slow learners.

via: DaringFireball

Having just purchased my iPhone, that Apple's making a fortune from, it's depressing to read about the latest arbitrary rejection of the well crafted Podcaster application.

Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.

No consultation, just outright rejection at submission stage.
Lets hope the stink this is raising causes Apple to stop counting money and start respecting their partners, application developers and customers.