There were some very discouraging signs from Apple out of the WWDC with regard to iPhone developers and the App Store review process, but it sounds like the pile of online criticism is having some effect on them:

I also learned, through various statements and implications, that the App Review team tries to actively avoid major blog publicity about bad rejections, and it’s something they take very seriously. This means, fortunately for us as iPhone-dev bloggers, that we matter and we should continue to bitch incessantly whenever anything is rejected for an invalid or ridiculous reason..

Just a quick note that Stephen’s tutorial on building encrypted iPhone applications with SQLCipher has been published by the fine folks at Mobile Orchard. Thanks, Dan!

GUID collision
inevitable, but we
live with the odds

Lifted from Mr. Kradel. I know, I cheated a little.

Dan Grigsby has put together a helper for doing simple Facebook status updates from an iPhone app with a minimal amount of fuss.

Ignore the pirate-speak, that’s my lang setting on Facebook

- (void)session:(FBSession*)session didLogin:(FBUID)uid {
    fbHelper.status = @"is learning to set Facebook status programatically from an iPhone";
}

Most excellent.

Received in email from Apple:

As a developer actively working with iPhone OS, we would like your help in a private test of the Apple Push Notification service. For this test, we have selected AOL’s AIM Developer Preview for iPhone OS 3.0 to create a high-volume test environment for our servers.

I wonder if they are hoping to drum up interest and adoption of PNS, which has received a luke-warm reception from many developers. Putting that aside, I’m surprised to see Apple asking the developer community for help, pro bono. Considering how consistently poorly they treat third-party developers, that’s some nerve.