>”Just a ridiculous decision. An indefensible one I would think, if even a small amount of logic and knowledge of how the web works is applied.”
Agreed!
I’m starting to think they do have a process. A very basic process followed so strictly that leads to ridiculous decisions. One of the statements of that process might be “Reject Apps that use foul language.”. But the reviewer probably doesn’t know what Tweeter is and doesn’t know how to distinguish between an App info and what comes from the internet as a search result.
Apple is playing really defensively here, probably avoiding to be sued by some crazy parents that saw those foul words on his son’s iPod/iPhone.

>”… then their big head start in the App Store arena will be wasted.”
I’m not quite sure about that. How often good Apps get rejected? 5% of the time? 1%? It’s not enough to doom such an advanced technology and huge community. Microsoft probably has a list 100x larger with complaints about stupid stuff made by Windows, and people still uses it a lot.

Agree with you on this: Apple should stop being arrogant, talk to the developers and clean the gray areas!