I don't think it's necessarily a "sad reflection" of the AppStore, it's just what happens when a brand new (and hot) marketplace opens. Some people make a kill

I don't think it's necessarily a "sad reflection" of the AppStore, it's just what happens when a brand new (and hot) marketplace opens. Some people make a killing for little reason or effort whatsoever. As time goes on the marketplace will evolve, and an application like that would never be able to be priced at $2.99 or get the kind of attention that it did in the very early days. Apple could have potentially prevented this with a little more visibility and/or less heavy-handed control over Apps going public, but probably not by much. It'll probably happen with the Android store, too, but now that people haven't learned it won't be quite so dramatic.