I don't think that the problem is the way Apple does business. The problem is that people view their mobile phones as a service and don't want to pay for anythi

I don't think that the problem is the way Apple does business. The problem is that people view their mobile phones as a service and don't want to pay for anything on top of that. It's like paying your ISP and then being expected to pay again everytime you visit a new website. Pretty much exactly the same as in both cases the people writing the software have trouble getting people to pay the bills. If you could somehow bundle your apps for free as part of the service and get a cut from that, I don't think people would have a problem at all with software. But I don't think most of the telcos are interested in that approach.