App stores are irrelevant if your phone allows you to install non-market apps. As far as I'm concerned, Google can censor the hell out of their Market, because

App stores are irrelevant if your phone allows you to install non-market apps. As far as I'm concerned, Google can censor the hell out of their Market, because I can just sideload whatever I want. Frankly, I think that's actually the best way to do things. Have a curated/censored app store for the normal folks/applications, and a method to install arbitrary apps that Google may not want to advertise in the Market. Now if AT&T would allow sideloading, it would be perfect, but every other Android phone I've seen has had this level of freedom.