I think we can all agree that people generally have short attention spans. I think we can also agree that quite a few HN readers are iphone developers and users. The developers among us develop on the iphone platform because the users like it. It isn't wrong to remind users about the hardships developers face in bringing quality apps to them. And I'm sure that most rejection still go unannounced ;). Hopefully this will lead to a) Apple being more reasonable or b) Users moving onto a platform that is more developer friendly.