There have been many complaints about the way Apple manage their approval system of apps and games trying to be released onto the AppStore. The most profound was of course Apple disallowing Google Voice, the reason believed to be that AT&T told Apple if they wanted to keep them as an iPhone supplier, the had to give it a now.
Well, on a live episode of the Diggnation podcast in Las Vegas, Kevin Rose (founder of Digg.com) put forward a great idea for what Apple should have done with their approval system.
His idea was to make iPhone and iPod Touch app as apps and games are downloaded for computers.
He think Apple should open the flood doors into the AppStore and let all apps be sold on it. Then, developers can pay a small amount of cash to have Apple look through the app to check for problems (essentially what the AppStore approval system) and that apps recieves a certific of authentication.
So, iPhone and iPod Touch users who are worried about their devices can only install apps that have this certificate or badge whilst the others can install whatever they wont (to a certain extent).
I think this is a great idea. I don’t see a way in which Apple loose out on this because of course they will still take their percentage of the money made and they cannot be held liable in any way because they simply have to say the apps that haven’t got a certificate should not be trusted.
What do you guys think of the idea? Is this the way Apple should go?
