There comes a time when a fellow just has to admit he's made a mistake. I've said on this blog a couple of times that I believe some technology fans - particularly people wanting to see violent games on the iTunes store and elsewhere - are crazy to object when the owners of said stores ban the content. It's not public property in spite of being on the Net, I've said, people have no objective divine right to appear on it.
Then this happens. Apple decides a respectable application may not appear because it duplicates something that's already in the system.
That's understandable. It makes sense. But it's not something the company had listed in its criteria before. This isn't an application with inappropriate content somehow, which was the main trouble previously.
So as the piece I've linked to says, you end up with application developers with no option but to spend their time and money working on software in the full knowledge that Apple might turn around and say 'no' right at the last minute.
Which, all told, kind of sucks...