Yeah that can only be viewed as a bad thing for Apple and the App Store. I have no idea how the leaders and decision makers (presumably the same people) at Appl

Yeah that can only be viewed as a bad thing for Apple and the App Store. I have no idea how the leaders and decision makers (presumably the same people) at Apple don't see what nearly every other developer I know sees clear as day - it's no longer enviable to write iPhone or iPad apps. It's not even cool anymore thanks to them destroying many great ideas. Apple's App Store is quickly heading the direction of hmmm... Not Microsoft because you can write anything you want for their OSes. Maybe early AOL or late Compuserve had this same feel of a walled garden (their respective portals) and they both slowly and dimly failed while technology passed them by. It'll still take some time but eventually innovators will skip past the app store and at that point there is no recovery.