I'm also an app developer, and I agree with your assessment. But... how the hell can Google not get GV in the store? Or Google Navigation? There's spam in th

I'm also an app developer, and I agree with your assessment. But... how the hell can Google not get GV in the store? Or Google Navigation? There's spam in the app store now. But we're missing out on multiple, high-quality, well-backed apps because Apple's busy playing hardball with app review. There are effective community spam countermeasures (see XNA) that work, and work well. I wouldn't be opposed to charging a per-app submission fee to keep spam out. Of course simply replacing app review with nothing would be a disaster. But nobody's seriously suggesting that. The computer industry has decades of experience dealing with spam. The only really dumb idea is to hire full-time employees to find it by hand.