> Apple [has] never tried to adopt a model [...] positioning themselves as the intermediary between the end users and application developers. I know it's in a

> Apple [has] never tried to adopt a model [...] positioning themselves as the intermediary between the end users and application developers. I know it's in a way tangental to what your point was, but if you read this sentence again you'll realise that it is exactly what they have tried (rather successfully) to adopt.