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I'm sure Apple will miss you terribly. An app was denied. Big deal. No great loss.

If you really want to run the app, jailbreak your phone and run it.

While I don't think it's a major reason not buy an iPhone, it is actually a fairly big problem. I know of at least 3 high profile apps that have been rejected due to "objectionable content" which was nothing more than a few swear words on content loaded from the web.

My problem, aside from the censorship in the first place, is that they don't follow the same standards in their own apps. Search the YouTube app for any swear word and it will happily give you all the swearing you can handle.

The web browser is un-censored. That's pretty much all that matters in this day+age.

Yes, but there's the argument that the browser doesn't directly help you discover content, whereas YouTube app does.

Apple wants to make it illegal for you to jailbreak "your" iPhone.

There has been quite a few reports on this (even a patent?). But can this be legal? Wouldnt this be similar to car manufacturers outlawing fixing your own cd/mp3/casette players in your cars?

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