Though the dust is yet to settle in the case of the recent changes that Apple has announced in its new Developers’ Agreement – largely pertaining to Sections 3.3.1 through 3.3.3 -, which have left quite a few developers bitter; there are now lingering doubts about the undefined precincts pointed to by the long-standing Section 3.3.14, which is currently applicable to both iPhone and iPad content.

The section 3.3.14 lately became a cause of concern for most developers because it happened to be the basis of Apple’s rejection of a political cartoon app by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore.

The disquieting section 3.3.14 reads thus: “Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple's reasonable judgment may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.”

Bringing to light some of the other arbitrary-sounding rejections that Apple has apparently made for some apps and some content – while surprising approving others –, citing Section 3.3.14, Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro has pointed to a text-only English-language translation of the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.

Commenting on Apple’s questionable app approval process, Pegoraro told Betanews that, going by the decisions taken by the company thus far, Apple’s reviewers are apparently “at their inscrutable worst only when they think nobody's looking.”