The real problem with the rejections of Fiore's cartoon app or Mad Magazine's Bobblehead Federal Register app is not the App Store approval process itself. It's

The real problem with the rejections of Fiore's cartoon app or Mad Magazine's Bobblehead Federal Register app is not the App Store approval process itself. It's the same problem that underlies Apple's recent banning of auto-generated app frameworks. The real problem is that pure content is being treated as an application. There needs to be a separate whole section of the iTunes Store for this shit: Music, Movies, TV, Apps, Interactive. It'd come with its own Webkit-based development environment, like Apple is doing for their new iTunesLP format. The people making these pointless apps don't really give a shit about integrating with the phone, and they aren't doing anything they couldn't do in Mobile Safari -- they're in the App Store to get paid for their work.