Crap Store

Mike Lee, with my favorite summary of the iPhone launch so far:

When people started talking about 500 apps on the store for launch, I counted all the developers I knew. Then I wondered where the other 450 apps were going to come from. This lower 90% seemed like it might be unpleasant, and oh my sweet chocolate lord did that turn out to be so.

The whole App Store launch— quiet and submission-lenient— strikes me as very cautious on Apple’s part; but once it really gets rolling, I’ll be expecting more stringent submission rules.

(okay, not expecting as much as hoping. Total freedom, and the App Store might turn into the unfiltered mess that is the Dashboard Widgets download page.)