Apple was ridiculously prudish with approving apps for the iPhone, if you recall going so far as to ban the dictionary, because it had words like cock (rooster) and ass (donkey) in it.
Now Apple is banning books and graphic novels from the iPad if they don't "approve" of them. Unsurprisingly, as with most censorship, it is not being enforced on an egalitarian level. Graphic violence and sex scenes from some comics are okay, but graphic novels of Ulysses and The Importance of Being Ernest are denied or blacklined—even after the user certifies they are over 18. Seriously.
Every day Apple makes it easier to spit out the Kool Ade.
I'm waiting for the Amazon Kindle ads: "The Kindle: The digital book reader that doesn't tell you what you're allowed to read."
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