This has nothing to do with liability-- they take on much MORE liability by reviewing than just being an open platform. It has more to do with stopping any applications that threaten revenue in any way-- and while you could have some kind of app recall process for violaters, since there is no standard it gets even more messy. They made their bed and now they can die in it for all I care. Someday, in our rocking chairs, we'll fondly remember the "good ol days" of open software under microsoft. Phhht.

Thank goodness for android... really good devices are only now hitting the market and honestly android apps will catch up very quickly. The reality is that probably only 100 apps account for 95% of all ihpone app usage. In the long tail there are a lot more java developers out there than OjC.

HTC Hero drops in a couple weeks. Nice.