[aminuit]

I get where you're going, but the toaster analogy doesn't work. If you want to sell toasters (or basically anything that takes mains voltage) en masse in Western markets, you'll have to fork over several large to Underwriters Laboratories and go through their approval process.

[stcredzero]

Yes, but they aren't nearly as notoriously capricious as the App Store. (Perhaps it's just not as well publicized?)