[drieddust]

I am open source agnostic but I will not allow someone else to control what apps I can install.

Scammy stuff will still exists and only difference will be that customer will never know about it[1] and is going to live under false security.Companies will try to ban every person trying to expose vulnerabilities.

[1]http://www.darknet.org.uk/2011/11/apple-bans-security-resear...

Do you thing a small set of employees sitting in a company's approval department are experts of every single thing that can be ever conceived by a developer?

I am not against the idea of sand-boxing if it is built in the OS API. How approving a sand-boxed application is going to improve the security?

[tomlin]

This. Attackers just point their attention to the greatest targets. When one target disappears, the attackers don't disappear - they just find a different approach. The recent iOS security breach proved this, in my opinion, pretty concretely.