Reverse engineering for interoperability is protected by law, regardless of Apple's wishes. So it helps their case for legal purposes, just not in the app store

Reverse engineering for interoperability is protected by law, regardless of Apple's wishes. So it helps their case for legal purposes, just not in the app store court run by Apple. The problem here is that Apple's wishes can be and are regularly applied in the app store regardless of whether they're actually good for the users(disallowing malware is good). This is a nasty side effect of the app store model and we'll be seeing more of such issues in the future with the Windows 8 Metro app store.