The Macalope, for the record, agrees 100 percent with Reznor.

Windows Mobile does suck [redacted].

Oh, and he also agrees with him about the App Store approval process. The rules are inscrutable and, after several apps having been approved and then yanked or denied and then approved without changes (like--surprise!--), one gets the feeling that the reviewers are working off little more than a 3-by-5 index card that says something like "Use your best judgement, Ted!"

Apple's boxed itself into a corner here. By owning the storefront, the company makes a nice profit off all the sales, but it also lends a tacit endorsement to everything on the virtual shelves. Apple loves to control the user experience from end to end, but that philosophy is not without problems. At the least, Apple needs to document the acceptance criteria more carefully and apply it more consistently. At the most, maybe the company brings in some nefarious gentleman in a leisure suit to sell those "other" apps? That doesn't seem like a move the company would make. But should our iPhone apps all reflect the morality of a nameless someone at Apple? No.

Finally, the big question: now that acute has a celebrity activist, what color should the ribbons be?