What I really like about both the Facebook and Google scenarios here is that Apple's response causes inconvenience for the developers (the party at fault) but n

What I really like about both the Facebook and Google scenarios here is that Apple's response causes inconvenience for the developers (the party at fault) but not for end users. Facebook's app still works fine, it's just Facebook employees who are affected. Before Apple's response, it seemed like Facebook might get away with it because their app is so big and important -- blocking the app would hurt a large fraction of Apple's own customers. But Apple's response is a clever way to show that, hey, they're big and important too! A large fraction of Facebook's employees use iPhones, not just for developing the iPhone app, but for general work purposes, because the iPhone is a great product. (I wonder how many of those employees will now switch to Android, though...)