The bureaucracy involved in getting anything into any of the app stores basically make them untenable for side-project/one-man-band developers. At first it felt

The bureaucracy involved in getting anything into any of the app stores basically make them untenable for side-project/one-man-band developers. At first it felt like a democratization of distribution, but now it's completely turned around, and is worse than before app stores, as the app store is effectively a monopoly on that particular platform (yes, I know you can get around that on Android, but most people won't/don't). And desktop OS are trying to move that way as well. I guess web-apps are probably the only real solution.