Since last week, Apple has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. First, it blocked Google Voice on the iPhone, a Google service that allows users to have one number that can be forwarded to receive calls across all their existing numbers. If that was not all, Apple found out that one developer had managed to upload over 900 apps on the App Store and these apps were nothing but RSS feeds of content that he did not own. How did over 900 apps went by Apple’s elaborate App review system is a big big question mark.

They say, when it rains, it pours. And that’s what happened earlier this week. Reports started pouring in about yet another app (an e-book reader) that was taken off the Store as users could read Kamasutra on it. What’s the big deal, I ask? Grow up, guys. Btw, at the moment there is an app called iKamasutram that is in the top ten most popular paid app in the Indian App Store. What do you have to say to that? And what about all those silly bikini clad babes doing the rounds?

We all know that Apple’s App review process is flawed. It is unpredictable and lot of developers are wasting their time (and not to forget money) sweating it out to develop apps only to find that Apple has a problem with their app and these apps never see the light of the day on the App Store. Agreed, there are many apps that do not pass the guidelines set by Apple and hence, do not pass through but there are many others that fulfil all the requirements but still do not go through. (For the record, I’m with Apple for banning the guy with over 900 apps, for instance.)

Google Voice is already available on Android and BlackBerry devices, so why can’t it run on the iPhone? Apple has complete seasons of South Park (in HD) on its iTunes Store but won’t allow a South Park app for the iPhone!

I have paid through my nose to get a ‘ network locked’ iPhone 3G in India, which is not subsidised by the carrier. Why should I be restricted access to some cool apps only because some kid at Apple thinks that the app is not good for me? No thank you, I’m old enough to know what’s good for me.

It is high time that app developers and vendors step up to Apple and say, “Fine, if you don’t approve my app, I’d give it out on third part app stores like Cydia and Icy for jailbroken iPhones.” It is now time for us, the consumers, to stand up against Apple’s moral policing and say, “We don’t care! If you block apps, we will jailbreak our iPhones and get them anyway. Your call!”

Of course, jailbreaking has a chance of rendering your iPhone useless and voiding its warranty. But at some point, I have jailbroken every iPhone I have owned and even helped my friends jailbreak theirs. The only reason why I don’t keep it jailbroken for long is there are not enough compelling apps for me to spend an hour jailbreaking them again whenever there is a new firmware update. But I promise, the day these ‘banned from the App Store’ apps make a beeline on third party iPhone app stores, I’ll jailbreak every iPhone I can lay my hands on. And this is the place where you will find everything to jailbreak your iPhone.