This is the dumbest thing I have read all week. It's like saying there are too many bad movies, so let's raise ticket prices. Or, there is too much crap on YouTube, so let's charge to post. I buy app's in much the same way I buy music, to support the artist. If I want to toss a buck to the developers of Koi Pond, Sneezies, or RotaryDialer, I can't think of a better (and easier) way to do so. Should Mobile Fotos have to double their price or give it away, to stay in the app store? No! The 99 cent bar may allow fart app developers to make a few dollars, but cheap app's also keep iPhones from being jailbroken. Reading your post got me to thinking, I hope you had to pay $5 to post this. If free market isn't free, then why should free speech be free. But that's just my 2 cents worth (or by your math, ten cents.)
Raising the App Store's Base Price to $4.99 Would Be a Good Thing