[hellow0rldz]

Notarization is nothing except Apple making sure they have visibility into the tail end of their ecosystem.

Remember the days of Windows 95 when you could make an application, sell it to a person in your own town and nobody in the world knew?! Not anymore!

Now Apple has to know that you made an app and get an exact copy of it, just for safe-keeping.

[phendrenad2]

You can still do this with a webapp though (although I guess in some sense Apple looks at Safari traffic logs probably). Apple just wants the revenue.