The Wall Street Journal has a story about not one, but three rogue iPhone app stores, the most popular of which - Cydia Store - is planning to become a full-fledged competitor to Apple’s app store.

It’s easy to see why these unofficial app stores appear; if you’re a developer whose application was turned down for any reason, you can always offer your app on the grey market, where the rules are, well, absent. Apple’s relatively strict policy on what can and cannot appear in the official App Store basically gives no other option to refused developers, and as long as this is so, the grey market will not cease to exist.

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