Mike Rose posts this interesting change in the iPhone developer agreement:
3.3.17 Your Application may include promotional sweepstake or contest functionality provided that You are the sole sponsor of the promotion and that You and Your Application comply with any applicable laws.
Apple is certainly going to frown on straight gambling apps but there is a whole lot of gray area in there which could be exploited by developers who perhaps want to make sweepstakes apps with cash prizes.
For instance, how about an ad supported sweepstakes app. Or a bingo app. Or a March Madness app with winner getting the proceeds?
Since laws in the US are on a state by state basis, it would be hard to allow/disallow download of the application by jurisdiction as Apple states. Currently, Apps are parsed by country and there d