> This is incredibly naive. Maybe you stopped reading. I also said they did it for financial reasons. To say they did it purely for profit is overly reduction

> This is incredibly naive. Maybe you stopped reading. I also said they did it for financial reasons. To say they did it purely for profit is overly reductionist. But in the sense that they believe the policies they have put in place make their device superior in the market, and make the App Store generate more dollars per user (both for Apple and for Developers), then you could say that profit is always an underlying motive. As it is and as it should be in capitalism. Whether you believe Android is great or not is irrelevant. I personally think you are glossing over some very high profile failings and failures of Android, but it’s totally besides the point. Similarly totally irrelevant whether they could have made different technical and policy choices over the last 12 years which may or may not have obtained the same or similar outcomes. Apple does not owe anyone the right to distribute their Apps on Apple’s own store, no more than any product can demand placement on their own terms in any store. Only if Apple holds a monopoly on smartphones could Apple’s right to enforce their own policies on their own phone be limited. That’s why the term monopoly is important. The existence and relative quality of the Android universe renders disagreements over Apple App Store policy beyond the reach of an anti-trust act.