This is why having just one app store sucks, and I'm not just referring to Apple here. It could've been Google or Microsoft, too (MS intends to have one in win8 too). But why should any of them be the moral police for everything?
I was thinking of Mondonet and mesh networks today. What if they could reject such mesh network apps from their stores because the Government asked them behind the scenes to do so? That wouln't be very good for us.
App stores are irrelevant if your phone allows you to install non-market apps. As far as I'm concerned, Google can censor the hell out of their Market, because I can just sideload whatever I want.
Frankly, I think that's actually the best way to do things. Have a curated/censored app store for the normal folks/applications, and a method to install arbitrary apps that Google may not want to advertise in the Market. Now if AT&T would allow sideloading, it would be perfect, but every other Android phone I've seen has had this level of freedom.
I was thinking of Mondonet and mesh networks today. What if they could reject such mesh network apps from their stores because the Government asked them behind the scenes to do so? That wouln't be very good for us.