Lou Paglia

"I do not disagree from a logistics perspective. But Apple succeeds as an experience company and let's face it, they succeeded quite well by not always listening to users. While often not the right approach, it works for them. I can't deny that being more open is quite a change from their proven methods and DNA." - Lou Paglia

"Does Amazon have "instant on" for all book submissions or only from reputable suppliers? This is the equivalent of letting anyone submit their own book to a Kindle ecosystem but in this case it is trickier because it is an app and actual code is runiing that could hose the device and device experience." - Lou Paglia

"But code reliability and standards adherance is only half the equation. What about the qualitative half which involves a human evaluation on the actual content of the app. Letting everything through may work in an open source world but it is very much misaligned to the corporate DNA of Apple and what many can attribute to their success." - Lou Paglia

"I don't disagree with the existence of app store moderation process. It is a risk though for the amount of time it takes. The biggest frustration danger that I see Apple having is lack of transparency in the review and approval process. If they could add transparency to the process by making it more clear when it was under review and more clear reasoning for rejection (ie not that is competes, I mean, confuses users with existing software). That could go a long way and would reduce the perceived time to market. Involve the community (alpha release) and they will embrace it even further." - Lou Paglia