“If you want to break down someone’s door, why don’t you start with AT&T, for God sakes? They make your amazing phone unusable as a phone!”

via TechCrunch.

After catching considerable heat recently for it’s capricious app store approval policy, including earning itself an FCC investigation over Google Voice, Apple apparently decided that an app which automatically translates tweets into “gangsta language” is appropriate.  It would seem that apps that add functionality are to be banned from the app store, but apps that advance racial stereotypes?  Bring ‘em on!

Of course the issue would be moot if Apple were accepting essentially all submissions that didn’t actually harm the device, but the fact that some functional apps are approved while others are denied indicates that Apple is making case-by-case value judgments about the applications in its app store.  That said, I have to wonder who thought “Ghetto Tweets” [iTunes link] was a great idea.

Read more at Gizmodo

Among other things, the new version includes:

• New home page navigation
• Support for pages
• Ability to comment AND like a post
• Event RSVP and details
• Video uploading
• Complete photo editing

Check out the images here.

No – it’s far more evil. It’s Walmart.

The big box is now stocking the magical Apple toy, and that means AT&T has competition. So, as AdAge reports, the wireless provider is getting down and dirty with some refurbished models:

The retailer is selling the [8GB model] phone, but not at the steep discount previously reported. Instead, it’s AT&T that will be the low-priced leader, selling $99 handsets — albeit refurbished and for a limited time.

Thanks to Jenny Cecil for the find.