Whatever you think of the App Store's policy, users have freedom of choice in which mobile platform(s) they buy, and developers have freedom of choice in which

Whatever you think of the App Store's policy, users have freedom of choice in which mobile platform(s) they buy, and developers have freedom of choice in which mobile platform(s) they develop for. Apple has made no secret of their desire to strictly control their platform. To prevent them from exercising control over their platform just because users continue to choose iOS devices and developers continue to dev for iOS devices is absurd. We just had a post about whether or not open sourcing a repository conferred some responsibility on the releaser to maintain it and offer support. The situations are not dissimilar: putting into public a thing which becomes popular does not convey to the public control over how you shape your creation.