One of the other things I keep thinking about, is that Apple created the iPhone and kickstarted the smartphone industry, they also effectively created the "App

One of the other things I keep thinking about, is that Apple created the iPhone and kickstarted the smartphone industry, they also effectively created the "App Store" way back when they first released the iPhone. Therefore in my head when almost nobody was creating a decent App store and Apple did just that, there would not have been really any competitors at the time for Apple to consider opening up to. If you create something that nobody else did, then years later when other industries create a similar product based on the success of yours. It seems silly to then be questioned about why you've never opened up to integrating with others. It is blatantly obvious that Apple have the better app store otherwise we wouldn't be complaining about the amount of leverage they have within the market. If Apple's app store was tiny and was filled with terrible ad ridden apps, we wouldn't be having this discussion in court, they would have gone out of business.