Which has lead to the current market of free-to-play (pay-to-win) games and ruined potential most legitimate indie titles to thrive on the platform.

Jeff Minter himself has abandoned iOS altogether, leaving an amazing collection of some of the tightest controlling and most gorgeous retro styled iOS arcade shooters completely defunct like they never existed. (Minotaur Project) [0]

(Let this also be a lesson to back up your iOS stuff, iCloud will not save apps that are removed from the App Store).

[0]: http://minotaurproject.co.uk/blog/?p=376

But as a parent it is hard to find the good games on the ipad, most are crappy pay to win stuff.