I think it's important to remember that Apple has a history of leaning to the decision which is most financially beneficial to Apple, wrt opening up the flood d

I think it's important to remember that Apple has a history of leaning to the decision which is most financially beneficial to Apple, wrt opening up the flood door to piracy. See iTunes/iPods policy changes over it's lifetime. Interesting paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2244111 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2244111