Billions of apps for Apple iPhone are downloaded. The web traffic share of the iPhone in mobile devices or smart phones is in Q1-2009 between 50 and 66% dependent on the source.
Now that the iPhone is hot, application developers are hurrying to get their apps approved by Apple. Apple is quite a moral censor on its proprietary (closed) platform. But, as the Apple iPhones have only a marginal market share in smart phones (9% now), there is no reason from an anti-competition perspective to take action on "abuse of market power", unless Apple is able to increase its market share based on actual usage popularity: the staggering web traffic share. Other platforms are Symbian (open source) with ~50% market share, RIM with around 15% (Blackberry), Microsoft Windows Mobile OS with around 13% and Google's Android. They all seem to be able to quickly win (back) web traffic share.
If Apple continues its current practice of heavily censoring & controlling the apps that can be downloaded by users, it may destroy the potential killer app, and reduce the chances of long-term success for its platform as it has done with its PCs and MP3 players before. Apple's puritanistic approach has been proven totally wrong historically for other platforms.
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