The meat of the document, however, comes later, in answer to the FCC's question "what is the approval process?" Apple's reply tells us more about how the machinery works than we've learned in a year of hits, misses and developer hissy fits.
The procedure, as the company describes it:

- Apple looks at every app it receives — 200,000 so far — pouring in at the rate of 8,500 new apps and updates per week.
- The company employs 40 full-time reviewers; at least two reviewers study each app.
- Apple has established — it doesn't say when — an App Store executive review board that sets policy and reviews app that have escalated to the board because they raise new or complex issues.
- Apps are reviewed for just what you'd expect: bugs, instabilities, privacy violations, stuff that little kids shouldn't see.
- Apps are also reviewed for the stuff that gets to the heart of the matter: use of unauthorized protocols and "applications that degrade the core experience of the iPhone." This presumably covers Apple's contractual obligation not to overtax AT&T's (T) fragile 3G network with TV or VOIP.
Apple says its reviewers spend most of their time making sure the apps function properly and working with developers to fix bugs and quality issues.