23rd September, 2008
Stories of indie developers making a quarter million in 2 months are driving a surge of crappy shovelware in the iPhone App Store. Russell Beattie weighs in and compares it to the gold rush that mass sales of J2ME handsets produced.
Wil Shipley proposes a new model for the App Store, where all applications are accepted but only a select few are publicly listed in the store frontend. The rest are still searchable by name and linkable from external sites:
Everyone can get into the warehouse. Only the select few can get into the storefront.