Yep. I'm a pretty staunch believer in free software and freedom. But quite frankly after dealing with all sorts of abusive third party subscription services ove

Yep. I'm a pretty staunch believer in free software and freedom. But quite frankly after dealing with all sorts of abusive third party subscription services over the years and dubious quality bits of software, I'd rather be in a market that is controlled as heavily as Apple's is. It is better for the end user than the alternative. Also I don't know any end users who actually give a crap about this. Not one. I suspect this is really driven because people don't want to pay the 30% and believe that by opening third party app stores they will be able to run their own subscription models etc. Build it and they will come! I doubt it because as mentioned before, no one really gives a crap. Apart from people selling, building apps and a few power users like the ones here who read the general tone from those folk. But again, the millions of users out there don't give a crap. Really, there are plenty of other ways to make money if your principles are violated heavily by this. The mobile app market place has always and will always be a complete shit show. The successes of a few are promoted as the status quo, when in fact it is an exception. For everyone else it's crap. Walk away rather than enter the debate if it's a problem. If we stop building apps and propping up the business model, people might start giving a crap.