Apple's 'Hottest Girls' Flip-Flop Is iPhone App Deja Vu

Apple's on-again-off-again relationship with the "Hottest Girls" application has people more hot under the collar than the racy photos of topless women that got the software banned from the iTunes App Store last week.Apple has again wielded the mighty hammer of censorship on the world's beloved iPhone and its App Store, dictating what content users can receive.

In the case of the Hottest Girls application, it went down like this: The application went on sale on Thursday for $1.99 in the App Store.

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