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This is exactly what Android doesn't need.

If I wanted to suffer draconian policies, I would develop for IOS and make a lot more money.

Remember the most successful platform from a deployment perspective had a motto: "developers, developers, developers".

You're contradicting yourself.

Assuming you're defining "successful" as "making money", you're simultaneously claiming that the iOS App Store is too draconian for developers to succeed, and that it's more successful.

Furthermore, I haven't seen evidence that the two issues--stringency of policy towards developers and potential for financial success--are correlated.

One can make a lot of money of the app store, but there are more android devices in the world than there are IOS devices.

Apple has the most succesful store, but the android has the better platform - because developers aren't restricted.

I don't disagree. But that very lack of restriction on developers is what allows Amazon to set up their own separate app store and bypass the perceived deficiencies of the Market. That's why I think this is a positive sign. And if you don't like it, you're free to try to do better; I can't say that about iOS.

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