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Apple is trying to apply the same control to the App store that they did for so many years to their hardware. This is the mentality which is going to cause them lots of pain. In Corporate relationships this sort of control is allowed. But when you have a marketplace you need to be more... peaceful in your control.

To the user it looks like they're defending and removing the 'bad' apps.

To the developer they're just exerting too much control and not providing for an adequate system to save the developer the trouble.

The fact is developers would have much less worry or problems with this if it were an application pre-code rather than an evaluation after coding. Thus wasting their time with no solution for how to avoid wasting the time.

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what users outside of the hacker and/or tech crowd will ever know/realize that apps are being removed (or in fact being restricted in the first place)?

agree with the policy you or I may not, but let's not kid ourselves and think that the users will revort (a la facebook) -- when they have not a clue the process for this phone/OS, nor android nor the typical carrier platforms.

Sorry, but do you really think Vista's slow uptake is caused by actual bad user experience? It's not.

It's because every techie will adamantly proclaim that Vista sucks, even though they might have never even tried it.

As far as I'm concerned Apple is a straw on the camel's back away from me doing the same to them.

Vista's slow uptake is due to immense corporate inertia and a lack of any apparent value to overcome it. Has nothing to do with techies.

Corporations keep using the same tech until the incentive to switch overcomes the considerable cost. Vista just hasn't given enough incentive yet. XP had a similar problem, though not as bad because the OS (especially once driver issues were ironed out) offered more relative to the previous one.

I believe that free choice actually leads to a better result for consumers. If you don't agree with this position then what you have said makes sense and you are probably a good fit for Mac products.

My belief is that over time consumers will notice the lack of available applications with respect to the other available platforms.

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