This will be a quick one:

A few months ago, Flash of Genius was told they had to remove mention of Android from their app’s description.  The description read:

“Finalist in Google’s Android developer’s challenge! See why tens of thousands of users voted Flash of Genius into the Top 10!”

Apple’s reasoning was that “… other general platform references are not relevant in the context of the iPhone App Store.”   Okay, fine.  The English semantics of that sentence make sense, even if I think it’s rather nitpicky and typical of what Apple seems to be becoming.

Today, I saw “The Impossible Game” was a featured app in the app store – “App of the week”, which I assume is selected by Apple, when I saw the following:

I think it’s pretty clear the difference here is that Xbox Live isn’t a competing platform, so their generic explanation that “mentioning other platforms isn’t relevant, so remove it” doesn’t seem to fly now, does it?

While this is certainly on the lighter-weight end of things, it just smacks of anti-competitive practice.