iPhone App Store

Heard the latest news about the iPhone app store? Apparently this application called "I Am Rich" made it through Apple's great filtering system. The app costs $999 and is just a picture of a ruby on the screen. This while many legitimate applications and developers sit waiting for Apple to approve their works so they can distribute their apps. I was not a fan of the app store idea to begin with, and Apple is not doing anything so far to prove me wrong. The system is basically allowing Apple to limit what a developer can or can't release for the platform. Now, if it was being implemented well, I might not care as much. The implementation right now though is absolutely terrible. Applications have been caught in limbo, some apps have gone up and down out of the store while developers sit with no explanation, and then a stupid application like this gets added. Apparently "I Am Rich" is now removed from the US store, but the principle still holds true. In my opinion the iPhone is an extremely powerful platform that developers should be able to leverage in whatever way they can or want (it is basically a Mac computer, just smaller!). If we had the app store as simply a marketing option, that is one thing. As it is though, I'm not a fan. Come on Apple, get with the program, call me if you want suggestions. :-)