From the department of really bad ideas: Apple’s iPhone app store approved and posted for sale "Baby Shaker," a 99-cent app from Sikalosoft that encourages users to silence a screaming on-screen infant by shaking the phone and, thus, the infant, whereupon red Xs appear over the child’s eyes. The ensuing uproar from children’s advocacy groups, including the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, was swift, hardly surprising and totally justifiable.

Within hours, Apple had removed the game. Okay, I’m not usually provoked by sloppily-programmed, tastelessly-conceived software, but c’mon—a game predicated on the concept of child abuse? Here’s where the walled-garden approach of Apple ends up biting them in the butt—because all official iPhone apps must be sold through the iTunes store, Apple automatically shoulders some of the responsibility for this one. Explain that to my four-month-old, Steve Jobs. —Glenn Derene