It's clear that the App Store is seriously broken. Every week we hear some new horror story, and they cover a distressingly wide range of types of brokenness. I

It's clear that the App Store is seriously broken. Every week we hear some new horror story, and they cover a distressingly wide range of types of brokenness. It's even clear, to an extent, what needs to be improved; better or more reasonable standards, for one, but the biggest issue, with a bullet, is transparency (as someone who deals with Apple regularly in a professional context I can say sadly that these are issues that Apple needs to improve on in more than one aspect of their business; their consumer face is magnificently polished but a lot of their corporate back end, so to speak, stinks). What's truly distressing is that there's absolutely no indication as to whether these ARE in fact being addressed—or even if they're being ignored. The App Store and its machinations are so opaque—and so inconsistently so—that just as developers are left in the dark when they submit an app, the community as a whole is totally in the dark about the state of the Store and its many discontents. We have no real idea if Apple has heard us, and whether they care if so; we have no idea if there are any improvements afoot or not, so we sort of sit in uneasy darkness. There's the half-formed notion that tomorrow they might unveil a fully-formed, totally overhauled App Store protocol that nobody knew was coming. But of course, there's also the notion that they won't.