At Juggleware, we specialize in making lemons (or a Ramos Gin Fizz) out of lemonade. Although our first app was rejected, denying us untold millions and a yacht in the Bahamas, it’s time to pull ourselves up by our puppet strings and do a little monkey dance.

Thanks in particular goes to the random internet troll who sent us hate mail (something along the lines of “go back into the hole you crawled out of for taking an unwarranted swipe at my hero George W Bush”) for providing the inspiration.

Details to follow. Just waiting on some clever line art animation by my good friend David Rhoden.

I just saw that Apple has put on its home page now has a public response to justify its App Store policies.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/

Of course the FCC is primarily interested in its rejection of big, important apps like Google Voice, and not indie developer apps, so Apple was able to gloss over its political censorship of apps like Freedom Time (See section 5, above), and not even include any rejected political content app in its list of “representative applications.”

To me, rejecting an app for speech reasons is much worse than for technological competition reasons, but maybe that’s because I am someone who cares about the first Amendment, something that has been shoved to the back of the bus while greasing the wheels of the free market machine.

Thanks to Brad at Bent Media for pointing me to this excellent essay by Joe Hewitt demanding the end of the App Store approval process as we know it.