@tomsomething: Oh yea. A real "nightmare." Let's keep the histrionic terms to a minimum shall we?

@Master_Soda: No it's not the rules. It's the guidelines for the developers to follow. Apple can and will sell whatever it wants in its store. These are guidelines meant to inform you what kind of stuff it's not going to sell in its store. It's not bound by them, they're for your edification.

@CVDon: Availability and price might make something better for your use case. But that doesn’t make them objectively better. You’re confusing "Should I buy this?" with "How good is this?" These are different questions.

@reuthermonkey: Look on any consumer computer store and you'll see plenty of Dells, HPs, Compaqs, etc. that all sell lower-end laptops sporting C2Ds or Athlon IIs. In some cases you even find Pentium IVs. PENTIUM MOTHERFUCKING FOURS!

@CVDon: But high quality furniture IS innately better than Ikea furniture. That's what makes it "high quality." This isn't just a fact, it's inherent to the definition of the term.

@tomsomething: And AFAIK the ones that were wrongly done actually just had to file an appeal and their app was accepted.

@tomsomething: That's what the guidelines are for. Generally whether it gets rejected or not is common sense. Yea it's up for interpretation, but it's interpretation that any reasonable person can guess at. Generally, if you have to ask it's probably not kosher. On the rare occasions where stuff did get wrongly banned…

@CVDon: Nobody is disputing that a crappy laptop is better than no laptop. The point is that I don't see how Jobs is imposing anything by not building crappy laptops. That's not what he does. How is that imposing?

@RadderthanRad: Given how small it is, I suspect if it rocked an i3 it would melt whatever desk you put it on.

@tomsomething: This is not a contract. It's a list of guidelines for the developers' benefit. Apple can unilaterally choose what it wants to sell in its store based on whatever rationale it wants. They’re not making rules, they’re giving advice.

@Wade McGillis: Christ people this is a list of guidelines for the developer's benefit dictating what NOT to do if you want your app approved. It's not a damn Constitution. It has no legal standing. The only reason Apple even published one is because people incapable of exercising common sense kept whining.

I'm guessing the using the Macbook's accelerometer to have it make lightsaber sounds when you move it around would qualify.

@JoJack82: "I know for now this is a only an option and not the only way to get apps on the Mac, but what about OS 10.8 or 10.9. Are they going to start locking those down like the iPhone or iPad? "

Hooray for out of context quotations. A sensible person might conclude that when he says something doesn’t work well it means either the technology isn’t there yet, the market isn’t there yet, or nobody’s been able to figure out a way to do it that doesn’t suck yet. If any of that changes then it suddenly becomes a…

@RadderthanRad: Just because the C2D is old doesn't mean it's weak. It's not cutting edge, but for everyday tasks it gets the job done fine. If you need more power get an i3. Nobody is stopping you.

@CVDon: Where is Jobs "imposing" his values? A cheap laptop is better than no laptop. But a cheap laptop is probably going to be a crappy laptop.

@FriarNurgle: Every time I have to travel I resent every extra ounce I have to carry around. I can see business travelers creaming themselves over something like this.

@reuthermonkey: How does Core2Duo make it a netbook? That's the most arbitrary definition of "netbook" I've ever seen.

@skittlzncombos: Yea. This probably falls under the "Ultralight" category rather than the "netbook" category.

@DreamTheEndless: $10.99 for a stock photo is much cheaper than the $50,000 or so it would cost you to send a photographer on an African safari.