[kinkrtyavimoodh]

Yes, it is easy for Apple to add 'exemptions' since they are the sole self-appointed judge, jury and executioner.

In practice, what it boils down to is a calculus about whether the an app is powerful enough for its absence on the platform to be a dent to Apple. When RandomApp1245 is not on an iPhone, no one cares and it's the app that loses business, so they suck it and pay Apple the danegeld. If Netflix is not any iPhones, I suspect there will be plenty of people for whom it will be a deal-breaker.

If it is, there will magically be exemptions added. Which is how some of the App store rules read like a complicated boolean algebra of if this, but not that, unless this, but only in case of that.

Let's not pretend all this is happening out of some fundamental noble meta-principle.