Craig -- it'd be pretty easy to add a routine to spew out the repo JSON info, and then pndstore (for instance) could harvest from your site as well.
(And if you're finally getting non-pnds in there, that'll be great; currently only the original ED's archive can host pdfs, themes/zips and random stuff, which is absolutely essential.)
I do not think people need to war around; there is _nothing_ wrong with having a wiki, an archive, the repo, abnd the app-store, and more; competition and rivalry and coverage is good -- and its also called 'backup' in case something happens to one (like seems to be frequent

More to point -- giving people _choice_ is always good .. let peopel use whichever they'd like.
Really, the built in browsers shoudl ust eh 'bookmarks' page as their starting point, so that the user can then pick their frontends of choice, since they all have their merits.
Craig _is_ bullheaded, and sometimes is in the way; but as I've said, its that same bullheadedness that has him get stuff done. I mean, it has been an uphill battle, and everyone invovled has had to be determined as hell. (You dont' know how many hundreds of firmware builds we tested .. I personally reflashed 5 times a night for a year or two before the first units shipped

Sometimes folks aren't right, sometimes thwey are; life is not black and white, its gradiant. I'm not overall a fan of app store 1.0, but maybe 2.0 will be great, whose to say until we see it. But Craig is also worried about support and control .. he does have a bit of a control issue perhaps, but he's also got GBAX and is the head of the OPT and worries over continuity. I can see that -- it might be he's just olooking at the other guys like 'thats great, but I dont' have a guarantee they'll be up in 6 mo'. (Maybe after a track record is proven he'll think better of them.. but then again, he's already got his site up, and after all this time.. it is hard to opjust put it down,a nd to real reason why he should.)
So .. theres multiple sites.
Thats good -- use the one you like, and that fits your needs. With multiple you have backups, and choice.. anyone who really wants one site really hasn't paid attention to the shit thats been gong on in mobile industry the last 10 years
Craig -- but you shoudl steal some ideas from repo; we've got PXML and the app-spec pretty tight these days, so on repo you can just upload a pnd, and all the app info is sucked right out of the PXML live; no re-enterign data. And then opndstore can come along and auto-update the apps right on a pandora, without user hitting the repo web UI at all. Pretty hot shit

You coudl add the repo bit to yours in a couple hours work, and then you're in the loop again.
jeff