The App Store is an ongoing karma leak.

From Paul Graham’s excellent article on the iPhone AppStore:

The dictator in the 1984 ad isn’t Microsoft, incidentally; it’s IBM. IBM seemed a lot more frightening in those days, but they were friendlier to developers than Apple is now.

But the most worrying part, in my view, is that people (and especially developers) are keener on accepting the ludicrous terms that Apple is imposing on them than they were even a few years ago.