[medearis]

Free apps have a lot fewer hoops that you have to jump through, so you can publish almost immediately.

As far as the article goes, I think the main point has been obvious for some time. Apple knew that these sorts of apps would be popular and initially blocked a number of the more crude ones. When they stared allowing the fart apps etc., the flood gates really broke open. The same happened with facebook apps. Whenever you have such an open platform with the potential to reach a wide audience, you're going to have a wide range of "success" stories.

[tocomment]

I submitted this free app over 5 weeks ago and still haven't heard anything. Any ideas?

http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/iphone-applications/