Serving at the Pleasure of the King
It strikes me that this is exactly the position every web developer has with google.<p>Google can arbitrarily and capriciously exclude them from their index.  When google excludes you from the index, there is no appeal, there is no explanation, and, unlike Apple, google will not publish a set of (reliable) rules.  (It gives a lot of advice but is inconsistent.)<p>Also, like Apple, if you are not able to get in the big leagues for distribution, you can distribute your product thru other, less popular channels that are more of a hassle.<p>Unlike Apple, however, which give you explicit feedback on the feature that was the problem (with screenshots if needed) and always cites chapter and verse from the handbook for the exclusion, google will not tell you why, or give you any way to resolve it.<p>With Apple, you can resolve the issue and resubmit it.  Your app will be on the store in about 7 days.  With google, even if you figure out what the problem is, and you resolve it, you have no way of knowing if you'll ever be let back into the index.