I wonder if the reason is that idiots will fill the whole available area anyway. Is Apple that afraid of bad designers?

Ony my HTC One X, PlayBook and Mac, the builtin icons are gorgeous and have interesting silhouettes. But if I look at any of the three attached App Stores, 3rd party vendors are desparate to fill the whole area with details.

The medicine category in the Mac App Store is a pretty good example of it. Most icon are either a solid block that will ruin your Dock's aesthetics, or a circle. I wish Apple would reject them all, but I can imagine the media response to that.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewRoom?f...