> [For Tim Cook to] omit the fact that there was — dating back to the mid-’90s, well over a decade before the iPhone App Store — a thriving market for software

> [For Tim Cook to] omit the fact that there was — dating back to the mid-’90s, well over a decade before the iPhone App Store — a thriving market for software sold directly over a thing called “The Internet” is sophistry. Most Mac software is still sold and distributed this way today. If App Stores are so great why is most Mac software sold outside the Mac App Store? The fact that, when given a choice, most developers don't use an App Store shows how little benefit Apple is actually offering. The App Store is pure rent-seeking, plain and simple. It's leveraging dominance in hardware sales into a separate field, internet-distributed software.