Few computer users from the 1980s will soon forget the rivalry between the myriad computer companies in business at the time. Apple and Commodore were at the forefront of that rivalry, as IBM’s PC didn’t really take off until later in the decade.
In fact, my earliest BBS experience from 1991 involved a fellow user–at the time he was actually a sysop–making a “Commode Commodore” joke to a friend (or maybe rival) of his who insisted upon using one of the things well past its prime. (Commodore was still in business making the Amiga line until their bankruptcy in 1994.)
So maybe it is only fitting, in a bizarre way, that Apple rejects a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone, as reported by Touch Arcade. It would almost be humorous except for the fact that the programmer spent several months on his project only to be censored by Apple. And I do use the term censored for a reason: this is censorship, and I fail to see a good reason for it. Several other emulator applications exist for the iPhone, and Apple still continues to leave them be.
Yet more evidence that Apple requiring the “seal of approval” on every iPhone application is unsustainable.