With Android you will be able to get any app you want. With iPhone you need approved apps.
Plus for Android: Free availability of apps regardless of what some vetting agent thinks.
Bad for Android: There is no vetting agent to make sure the app isn’t malware, won’t screw up your phone, or isn’t in general poorly-written crap.
Pick your poison.
If all Apple and AT&T did was vet the program for malware you’d have an argument.. as you probably know, that’s not their main purpose.. its main purpose to ensure no app is going to get onto your phone that will cut into AT&T’s profits.
With Android you will be able to get any app you want. With iPhone you need approved apps.
With Apple, it's "approved" according to some minimal operational/software standards having to do with the iPhone, and then, other basics such as copyright/trademark issues and then some standards such as no porn and no offensive/derogatory stuff which could involve Apple in lawsuits and stuff like that (they've got enough lawsuits as it is, without even trying... LOL...).
All in all, what they control at Apple is more a thorn in someone's "mind" -- more than a reality which affects the vast and overwhelming majority of iPhone users.
I would say this is a total "non-issue" with users in general and is only something that a few developers like to squawk about, just because they can't do whatever they want and they stamp their feet and holler and cry and so on... LOL... big deal!
I would like to see how that goes in a Divorce case.
All any wife needs to do is download something “naughty” and then replace the phone to her soon to be ex. Then even if he finds and erases it, there is still a record of the download. Let the settlement blackmail begin.