[linuxftw]

My thinking is the same. Apple could have just updated their platform, broke the existing app for all current users and new users, and they would have been dead in the water.

There were a lot of users that were angry that their application that worked on WinXP didn't work on Vista/7. The platform moves forward, with or without you.

[swerling]

I think this is wrong, and really the crux of the problem. The app store is not a platform, it is a marketplace.

Apple has used control of that marketplace to impose a technology that we would not otherwise use and adds no value to our product.

[linuxftw]

The marketplace is a part of the platform. Apple controls the platform.

[lostmsu]

The platform can't prevent apps from accepting money outside IAP. It has to be people.