[jan_g]

>I hope they will follow Apple's model of having tighter control over their app stores rather than the mess that the Android marketplace is.

It is really interesting that you hope for tight control, while I am waiting for a platform with as little carrier and/or platform vendor control as possible.

[gregholland]

In the ideal world, I want everything to be "open" and "free" too. However, there are simply too many spammers/unethical people out there who abuse such a system. Therefore I rather have a high quality app store over one that is filled with spam apps but is "open".

[jan_g]

I'm not referring to "free as in beer", but for freedom of choice. I want to be able to install & use apps (for which I paid) without carrier or platform vendor meddling. I don't want to root the phone, don't want to unlock the sim, don't want to be able to use only those apps that are approved by unseen/unknown authority. "Spam" apps as you call them are not a problem, as they are not in "pc land" unless you install everything you come across.