I also wonder why Apple choose to allow people who have never purchased an application or even installed it to be able to leave feedback about an app. This leaves it open to anyone leaving feedback even if they have not tried it.

I do think its great that you can only download apps for the iPhone through the App Store. As much as people see this as Apple monopolizing I think it ensures integrity of the apps you download and above all else, helps keep everything legit. If you can download from anywhere then you have no idea what you’re installing.

Finally, piracy is always going to be a problem but I believe (to some extent) that if someone copies your app, then they weren’t going to buy it anyway. In other words, if it was impossible to copy then they wouldn’t buy it. Not fair though that some honest people pay and others don’t but generally that is what I believe. The bottom line is everyone will pay eventually either through no apps being developed or increased costs of apps.

Apple will soon have the home market sown up I believe. Fantastic, intuitive and cool products.

A torrent called “5,000 iPhone apps” for example?

Whoever (Apple or Google) can clamp down on that kind of practice on their platform will be flocked to by devs.