Richard Jones, co-founder of the popular Last.fm music sharing service, says Apple has performed an act on them usually only witnessed in prison shower stalls, per the .

It's not just the tunesmiths singing the blues. Richard Ziade, CEO of Readability, whose app lets people enjoy online content without those annoying ads or ubiquitous social media sharing buttons (like the ones you see to the left), complains that his company's latest app was rejected because it offered users a way to subscribe that was outside Apple's parameters.

In an to Apple he writes:

We believe that your new policy smacks of greed. Subscription apps like ours represent a tiny sliver of app sales that represent a tiny sliver of your revenue. You've achieved much of your success in hardware sales by cultivating an incredibly impressive app ecosystem. Every iPad or iPhone TV ad puts the apps developed by companies like ours front and center. It was a healthy and mutually beneficial dynamic: apps like ours get exposure and you get to show the world how these apps make your hardware shine. That's why we're a bit baffled here.

Ziade says Readability is turning away from the app store and toward "the free-form nature of the Web," but offers to return if Apple promises to donate 70 percent of its revenues from Readability subs to writers and editors, as Readability does.