> There's a reason why even open leaning Google has a review process for their app store.
You're either misinformed or being somewhat disingenuous comparing the Android review process to the App Store one. The Android review process consists of pretty much instantaneously running a piece of sanity check software against the putative application, and then immediately approving or rejecting it.
Yes, Google still has the ability to reverse decisions later, but this is more or less the only part where their "review process" is on par with Apple's. Anyway, you would expect that anyone running an application store would maintain this ability, at the very least to remove abusive or somehow illegal pieces of software.
(I'm not saying that I would never disagree with Google's particular decisions regarding their ability to remove applications. I'm saying that the Android model is pretty much exactly what the article is proposing for the App Store.)
Where did I say that Apple's app store process was identical to Google's? Or even close?
The original article quoted a post endorsing the idea of no approval process while saying the person writing that article was right. To me that's an endorsement of no approval process and I was responding to that by saying even Google has some kind of approval process in place.
You're either misinformed or being somewhat disingenuous comparing the Android review process to the App Store one. The Android review process consists of pretty much instantaneously running a piece of sanity check software against the putative application, and then immediately approving or rejecting it.
Yes, Google still has the ability to reverse decisions later, but this is more or less the only part where their "review process" is on par with Apple's. Anyway, you would expect that anyone running an application store would maintain this ability, at the very least to remove abusive or somehow illegal pieces of software.
(I'm not saying that I would never disagree with Google's particular decisions regarding their ability to remove applications. I'm saying that the Android model is pretty much exactly what the article is proposing for the App Store.)