Fine. Nit-pick my example instead of answering the main point.
Tell me what smartphone has a selection of applications which competes with the iPhone AppStore in:
- quantity (vs. 50,000 apps)
- quality (vs. any “good” iPhone app, like Pandora, BulletFlight, Doom Resurrection, etc.)
- price (vs. LOTS of free apps, $3 normal, most under $10)
- installation (vs. AppStore->pick app->Buy->Install, running within 1 minute)
- development (vs. free programming suite)
- distribution (vs. $0-99 + 30% price to sell on AppStore)
- satisfaction (vs. lots of free MSM drooling)
How is that smartphone you bought doing with its apps?
I’ve got 25 apps in common use on my iPod Touch.
If you like buying everything from one source, that is fine. Other platforms have thousands of sources and many hundreds of thousands of applications to choose from.
I find it very ironic that most Applefiles complain about Microsoft's monopolistic tactics but now marvel at Apple's single-channel AppStore.