Every task will have a list of rules that we never get to hear, reading a list of rules doesn't make great TV.
I think most people have realised after 7 series that they aren't allowed to use the internet and the phones will have internet access blocked. If they could use the net, why would they be given the yellow pages?
The App task must have had some tight rules, there's a limit to what the developers could do in the short development time they had, is it a co-incidence they both had soundboard apps?