I'm surprised I haven't seen more parallels being drawn to Linux style package managers, or the Ubuntu Software Center. The app store does the same thing. Linu

I'm surprised I haven't seen more parallels being drawn to Linux style package managers, or the Ubuntu Software Center. The app store does the same thing. Linux distros get to say what apps are put in their repos based on arbitrary rules. I think a lot of the FUD and anti-Apple rhetoric is just that (and this is coming from a guy who doesn't like Apple!) The more important issue, and one I think SOME pundits are getting right: Let Apple have their App Store, as long as they allow people to run arbitrary (read: any) programs on their Mac. If they start locking down the Mac computers like they do the iPhones, THEN will be the time to attack Jobs' character with more vitriol than even Zuckerberg has been getting.