I understand what you're saying, but it strikes me as a very tortured and flimsy excuse for the App Store's presence in the article. By your reasoning, there's

I understand what you're saying, but it strikes me as a very tortured and flimsy excuse for the App Store's presence in the article. By your reasoning, there's no URL for GIMP either. Does that make it part of the URL's death knell? (I wouldn't consider a URL to an Debian repository to be much different than a URL to an App Store, after all...it doesn't take me to the program, but it will allow me to configure a special piece of software to obtain & install the program for me.)