All of this complaining about the iPhone's App Store would seem to validate Palm's stance on this issue: that there will be an app store, but that apps would not be required to come from there.

It can allow Palm to be more choosy about the apps in its store without being called out for censorship. As such, you get to have an app store that can have fewer useless apps, making it a better place for the general consumer, while still allowing anything to be published, making the platform available to apps that Palm might not want to be associated with.

Now, I don't know how this has panned out in reality, but it seems to me like it's been confirmed that it's at least a more viable structure than the closed door App Store.