These stories make me ever more excited for the Pre. Palm's always been extremely open about third party apps. It's one thing to block an app from the "Offici

These stories make me ever more excited for the Pre. Palm's always been extremely open about third party apps. It's one thing to block an app from the "Official store." It's another thing altogether to prevent third party apps from being installed from everywhere except the official store. I suspect if users could install their own apps manually, all this hubbub would go away. Of course, I couldn't possibly see Apple allowing this, for fear of someone else creating their own App Store app and developer submission network, without Apple's complete lack of written guidelines, and apparently inconsistent application of whatever it's own internal guidelines are.