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Originally Posted by stustaff
Choice is good! and if everyone was open and let anything into their store then where is my choice to have someone pre approve the apps that appear on my phone?
I like that Apple do that and would rather that they sometimes go too far in declining apps rather than not going far enough.
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Where is the harm in the Windows Phone approach of having an approval process for the on-device market and also the option to 'side load' apps from any other source? The Android approach is similar (though there is not much control over what gets into the marketplace on Android). Those customers who want Big Brother to decide what they should do with their phone can happily use the marketplace and those who want freedom can get apps that Big Brother doesn't approve of (e.g. email apps better than Apple's, apps with rude words in, anything that Big Brother feels morally or politically offensive, apps that allow the user to improve their phone with VOIP, etc.).
Apple's app control is not about you, it's about Apple retaining control over their products at the expense of the customer.