It can be construed as either way, but the face that there were tens of thousands of programs and libraries under the GPL when the App Store guidelines were rel

It can be construed as either way, but the face that there were tens of thousands of programs and libraries under the GPL when the App Store guidelines were released, it leans towards saying that Apple banned GPL'ed apps from the App Store. If the FSF had modified the GPL to exclude the App Store, then you'd be more correct.