The App Store Police Need More Muscle — Not Less This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

With Android Market gaining momentum, it’s time for Apple to weed through the trash and offer nothing but top-notch apps.

In case you missed it, a rogue developer infiltrated Apple’s walled garden about a week ago. Thuat Nguyen and his offerings were publicly frog-marched away after he reportedly hacked into users’ iTunes accounts to make fraudulent transactions for apps that boosted his suspicious-looking titles into 42 of the top 50 seller slots of the e-books category. Apple, predictably, offered a lame non-apology apology, failing to say directly whether fraud had occurred and telling customers to monitor their credit-card [...]

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