"It's actually likely that Apple fast tracked all submissions made recently."

Or there's a high correlation between the apps you installed and the ones that were fast tracked?

"the latter provides instant feedback and full control."

Sure sing the praises of the wildly successful Android Marketpl-- oh wait they had to rebrand it.

Moreover the difference here is that I am not claiming google's model is insane and has no advantages. There are clearly several strong advantages to it. But let's be clear it also has some huge negatives: security, fraud, average quality, spam, discoverability, etc.

Ticking off one spec where google has an advantage and declaring Apple's far more successful store insane is laughable.