&#62; Think of the App Store as the public roads for the iPad--the state has a vested interest in making sure that drivers are minimally competent, so they have a gatekeeping function in the form of a license.<p>That really makes no sense at all. You are basically saying that in order to produce software you have to pass a 'driving test', but in fact there are millions of people producing open source software that would make the majority of these apps look like the toys they are.<p>Sorry, but that really doesn't fly with me, the app store is simply a method of control that has nothing to do with quality.<p>Or were those google programmers that got their application refused somehow incompetent?<p>The only arbiter of what is 'good enough' and what isn't is the user, not some approval process.<p>If all they did was scan for malware I'd have no problem with it.