Apple pulled a record 439K apps in Q2, including abandonware

sflocal said:
Good.  I wish Apple was more aggressive with these even more. 

Pulling apps from the store has an inherent danger to Apple's position as the sole provider for apps for iPad/iPhone. They're already suffering from being considered a monopoly all across the globe. That's on disadvantage of that.
I would rather see the Apple Appstore becoming the 'premium' App provider that adds a true quality control, while leaving the garbage to some 3rd party provider. Right now the Apple Appstore is a cesspool of all kind of apps that sometimes even trick people out of their money for essentially nothing, just because they don't want to suffer lawsuits for being too restrictive. This hurts Apple's image significantly. But the Chief Excel Operator is obviously more interested in profit margins than the Apple brand right now.