App stores are an example of corporate stupidity. If you really want a successful phone product, good apps will do it for you. But since the benefit is indirect

App stores are an example of corporate stupidity. If you really want a successful phone product, good apps will do it for you. But since the benefit is indirect, corporations are unable to make the correct decision - they go for the easy money. It used to be that customers had enough leverage to provide incentives to corporations to make better decisions. But in their wisdom, corporations have decided that they are better off without customer feedback. We have gotten to this point by allowing corporations to dominate our political process, changing us from an above average democracy into a corpocracy. It is not good for us, and in the long run not good for them.