I decided it was time to read Readability’s letter to Apple–which is surprisingly nothing more than a blog entry. From previous reports, Readability’s rejection seemed unnecessarily evil. However, it would seem Gruber has it right, again. Let’s take the time to twist some words:

From Readability’s, “An Open Letter to Apple”:

If we implemented In App purchasing, your 30% cut drastically undermines a key premise of how Readability works.

To which Apple would have responded:

If we accepted Readability, your 30% cut drastically undermines a key premise of how the App Store works.

Which brings us back to the brilliant statement by none other than Ben Brooks:

If you want to jump on Tommy’s trampoline then you are going to have to be friends with Tommy and that means going to his stupid birthday parties and playing by his rules — but its a freaking trampoline so its worth it.

It looks like there are going to be more than a few web apps arriving in 2011.