Presumably they want to keep a pretty tight grip on what 3rd party app stores are doing. For all the usually assumed control reasons, but also because when some

Presumably they want to keep a pretty tight grip on what 3rd party app stores are doing. For all the usually assumed control reasons, but also because when some 3rd party App Store becomes a major vector for some malware or another, the headlines won’t be “Uncle Bobs Bait Shack App Store Wracked by Scandal”. You can be assured that the headlines will all very prominently use “Apple” and “iPhone”