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How to purchase and deploy custom B2B apps through Apple's VPP

Is it just me or does this seem all a little over the top? I'm in Canada so this can't even apply to us at this point. And I also work with a lot of not for profits and school districts as a VAR. One of things people love about the iPad environment is the nimbleness of the marketplace to adapt to needs through app developers. All this controlling just seems counter intuitive to that. I keep thinking if someone can figure out how to make tablets serve the internet well, and that includes a better way to distribute and manage apps there's a huge potential. Apple controlling means of distribution, rules of production and environment of manufacture -- even set aside whole issue of monopolistic stuff -- just screams bottleneck. No wonder they haven't rolled it out to the rest of the world.