True, but the fragmentation and lack of a vetting authority has turned it into a morass of poorly-tested, ill-supported apps that rely on assumptions made by th

True, but the fragmentation and lack of a vetting authority has turned it into a morass of poorly-tested, ill-supported apps that rely on assumptions made by their authors based on what few handsets they had available to test (if more than one). I don't like the way Apple's treated the app store in some cases, but the fact is that the apps that do make it through the gauntlet are better tested and more robust because of it.