[threeseed]

Apple's position is actually very easy to understand.

Don't do anything that is likely to cause significant harm to them. Examples of this include: (a) negative press publicity e.g. porn app, drone strike app, (b) stealing from or harming their customers and of course (c) this app where they will have to cover the cost of you putting heavy objects on something that it was never designed to do.

If you want to damage your own phone go ahead. You can build a weighing app and deploy it to your phone. But expecting Apple to endorse (which is what the App Store actually is) stupid behaviour was never going to happen.

[roosterjm2k2]

I don't buy it. Where is the negative publicity on android? It doesn't exist... There are apps that many people find offensive on the play store... just like there are movies on amazon that some people would find offensive... same thing..

[Tloewald]

The negative publicity on Android for bad taste or stupid/dangerous apps (remember "Send me to heaven"? the app that measured how high you threw your phone?) is probably swamped by the bad publicity from malware and spyware. The thing about the App store is so little bad news comes out of it that all the hysteria is over minor stuff (e.g. Apple accidentally banning Civil War games).

[ankitaggarwal]

Completely Agree with your view point. Why was it down voted?