I was going to write a blog post about Apple's new App Store policy, which removed "adult-natured" apps from the iPhone. These weren't hard-core pornography, they were silly apps like "Asian Boobs" and "Up Skirt."

The entire blogosphere got in a tizzy about this, and TechCrunch posted an article that lays into Apple for this policy. Here's the crucial point that MG Siegler, the writer at TechCrunch, leaves out: he's still using an iPhone. So he can complain all he wants about how unfair the whole process is, but until he stops mailing in his check to AT&T every month and sells his iPhone on eBay, it's all meaningless noise.

This is the comment I left on the TechCrunch post:

Kevin Meyers - February 23rd, 2010 at 5:03 am UTC
The real question that MG left unaddressed is whether or not this bothers him enough to ditch his iPhone. MG, you switching to Droid/Palm/BlackBerry?

If not, this is all much ado about nothing. Complain all you want, but you still mail a check in to AT&T every month to support this business model. If you have made the calculation that owning an iPhone is worth putting up with these practices, that’s great, but please don’t pretend to be indignant about it when you still use the device.

There’s this great thing in America called a free market. If you don’t like Big Macs, don’t eat at McDonald’s. If you don’t like frappuccinos, don’t go to Starbucks. And if you don’t like the App Store, don’t use an iPhone. The only way Apple is ever going to think about changing this policy is if people that are angry about this stop buying the devices. Until then, who cares.