Apple's App Store approval process continues to baffle many. While iPhone owners sit and wait for SlingPlayer for iPhone to get approved, Apple continues to approve apps that have no place in the App Store. The latest being 'Baby Shaker', which went on sale this weekend for $0.99.  The App Store description reads:

On a plane, on the bus, in a theater. Babies are everywhere you don't want them to be! They're always distracting you from preparing that big presentation at work with their incessant crying. Before Baby Shaker there was nothing you could do about it.

Now, Baby Shaker gives you a charming drawing of a baby sure to make those with a less than iron will fawn. True to life, it begins to annoy you immediately. See how long you can endure his or her adorable cries before you just have to find a way to quiet the baby down.

Despite the title 'Baby Shaker' and 'game play', the description then adds a note to never, never shake a baby. 

For a while, it's been enjoyable poking at the apps that find their way into the App Store. From the 30 some-odd fart apps to apps that 'turn your iPhone into a toilet', it's been a fun ride. Enough is enough. We just blew threw an app aimed at kicking puppies and went straight to shaking babies. When the developers came up with the idea, perhaps they didn't realize that only 15% of shaken babies escape serious damage. One in four shaken babies die from their injuries within a few hours to a few days of the shaking.* These are Apple approved apps that appear in Apple's App Store.  At what point does this filth adversely affect the very brand that Apple has worked over 33 years building.

Update: Apple has since removed this application.

[Krapps via CNET]

* Stats via Stop Shaken Baby Syndrome