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Actually it's true. Apple removed Scratch from their app-store because "Apple wants to focus on consuming media using these devices, not producing media."[1]

[1] http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/apple-removes-sc...

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That's Scratch users speculating on the reason, not an Apple statement. At the time Apple policies were very restrictive about non-approved languages (Flash, etc), but they have since been relaxed.

Ironically I just posted asking if Apple would allow it now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3161245

also, it wasn't really scratch that they didn't approve, it was a scratch player. The player downloaded and played scratch programs from the website. This continues to be something that is not allowed. I would like to see apple reverse this decision though.

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