Apple Bans the Word 'Android' From App Store

05.02.2010
By now, we're all familiar with . Particularly when it comes to the App Store, the crew from Cupertino is famous for its and . The process can make the seem pretty reasonable at times.

This, my friends, is one of those instances. Apple has apparently just forbidden a developer from using the word "Android" in his app's description. The message: Drop the A-word, or drop your application.

My response: Seriously, Apple?

Apple's heavy-handed use of the rejection stamp has hit everything from to . If there's one company that knows the feeling of being banned, it's Google.

Apple from its App Store last year, a move so strange-looking that even . Apple, according to as part of that investigation, said the app "duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone."