Point well made - I believe your are right.

When you are an ISV or Gold Partner, MS grants you a number of licenses for all this stuff which I tend to gloss over from time to time.

Back to the original point, from the other comments it appears that the Android app restrictions apply only to the Google App Store rather than the device itself. You could still sell non-conformant software, just not in their app store?

When Microsoft release their App Store concept for Windows Mobile, it may well have a matching set of absurd conditions ... who knows. I hope they learn from the other's mistakes.

Cheers,
      J.