10:30 AM -- In a recent email to a customer, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs, in his typical terse style, defended his company's app-screening policies and offered a brief explanation for why an app by Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore was rejected.

In the email obtained by TechCrunch, Jobs responded to the customer's complaint about Apple's app policies, writing simply:

"Fiore's app will be in the store shortly. That was a mistake. However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone."

This isn't the first time Jobs has likened Android phones to porn machines. Earlier this month at the iPhone 4.0 OS event, Jobs reportedly said, "You know, there's a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go -- so we’re not going to go there."

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