Actually, if you follow Apple terms, there it's really hard to be rejected. Yeah yeah I know, Google Voice, but it's one application over tens of thousands, and the fact that they are a major competitor didn't help. It's not even a matter of developing cutting edge, because great technologies like Siri or Remail made it to the store just fine. They have terms of services, developers should just read them and stick to them.

Yeah, my car can do 150mph but if a cop stop me cause i'm speeding over 65mph i'm not going to cry cause the USA aren't an "open" country where I can't decide how fast I can drive the hardware I own.

But then Apple changes their idea of what's acceptable and removes a gamut of applications, including your own.

To continue your analogy, it's like you were driving the speed limit, then a month later they lower the speed limit and ticket you for your driving speed last month. Unless you're Sports Illustrated.

That doesn't counter the original quote. Remail is still dependent on a third party to push updates to their clients. Now sure they aren't likely to get rejected, but they can't push an update to a client directly they must wait for apple to get around to it, and with the popularity of the app store that might be a while.

If you have to follow Apple terms then they are, by definition, deciding if you can provide certain functionality to your customers.

I'm sure Adobe could make the same argument to Apple. If you only do what's in our interests then we'll probably update our 3rd party libs within a reasonable timeframe. And don't bring up that one time we didn't bother supporting something in your API, that's just one feature out of thousands we did support.

It's just that there are no "your" customers anymore. Apple owns them all! Whether it's in your best interest? It depends on how big or small you are...