[colinplamondon]

The conspiracy theorizing about the App Store never ceases to amaze me.

Apple is shipping iBooks as a non-bundled application to be downloaded in the free section of Books in the App Store. Do you really think they would delete every other app in the category they put their offering in? Further, iBooks is only available in the United States at launch. Will they nuke reader apps in Finland despite iBooks not being available there?

[mrtron]

Probably? They decided the whole world isn't prepared to see boobies on their phones and that doesn't even compete with one of their own products.

[colinplamondon]

They said from the beginning porn wasn't allowed, they loosened a bit, there was a flood of soft-core porn apps into every conceivable category, and they nuked em to prevent them from taking over the entire App Store. I'm all for porn, but that was just largely a matter of spam prevention.