Funny, Apple made a fuss earlier this year that they were cracking down on "My First App" type applications, but they let shoddy, fraudulent, poorly translated applications through no problem...
It pisses me off to no end that you can't build those applications, but this stuff isn't caught by their filter.
I think that's a false equivalence. The devil is in the details with large projects like this.
http://fortune.com/2009/08/22/40-staffers-2-reviews-8500-iph...
Been receiving a steady stream of notification emails from Apple about them, and some have already been taken off the store as a result of my inaction. Not all at the same time mind you - about a week or so between apps.
They are serious about the cleanup, but I expect it will take time to go through the millions of apps on the store.
For most of them, it was because I had never updated the screen sizes or anything to suit the newer iOS devices, plus used old SDK calls or Ad plugins etc.
Then I got another email about two weeks before. At the same time, the app were flagged on my iTunes Account, and I received 2 notifications (2 weeks before, and on the day of removal) via the iTunes Connect app that I have on my phone.
There was also an email a few months back explaining that they would be conducting this clean up in Sep/Oct.
All up, I believe it was plenty of warning. I just couldn't be bothered to make the changes as the apps were pretty much dead anyway, and there were too many competitive ones that were far better, so I let them kill them off.