Do you feel that apple stifles the advancement and innovation of apps?

Hello,
The subject says it all.
Apple, with its monopoly of getting apps onto the phones of a large percentage of the population, and with its strict aapp admission guidelines, may be part of the cause of the stifling of innovation of apps.
Apps can be so much more than what apple allows in their guidelines, but because of the way you have to get an app approved to ship on a large percentage of existing smartphones, developers do not wish to innovate and develop new apps that function, although they may not meet all of apple's strict guidelines.
discuss?