Wil Shipley: Let the Market Decide
Wil Shipley has an excellent post on what the App Store should be, but isn’t:
Customers win because they can choose whatever software they like, regardless of whether Apple “approves” of their choice or not. Apple wins because developers aren’t alienated and don’t all go develop for Android, and so Apple has the device where all the innovation is happening. And developers win because the obviously cool apps will be featured by Apple and get tons of his, but even if their app isn’t “blessed” by Apple, if it’s a neat enough idea it’ll become popular on its own, through word-of-mouth.
The whole post is well worth your time.
