Apple's policy of approving every iPhone app that goes into its store has led to delays for developers and plenty of controversy whenever a questionable app makes it through the process. The latest stir was over a "baby-shaker" app that was available in the store from Monday to Wednesday of this week before Apple pulled it, according to The Examiner. Apparently, the object of the game was to see how long you could listen to the crying of a cute illustrated baby before you would shake your iPhone to make it stop.

People were understandably upset. The app got quite a bit of news coverage before Apple was finally able to pull it, and there's been no comment so far about how it got into the app store in the first place. It's really hard for me to see the pro-baby-shaker side of this story. Even if you feel like it's just a game and people should lighten up -- after all, so many video games involve killing -- it still doesn't make sense for Apple to have let it pass, considering the much less offensive apps that have been removed from the store.