[jjav]

> Apple should not be the final arbiter of who is allowed to develop mobile software.

That is the big picture here. Details aside, one company should not have the power to dictate how developers write software for their customers, just because those happened to purchase hardware from the big company.

If you think of this in terms of how the world existed prior to mobile, it would've been insane for any general purpose compute device (Apple ][, C64, IBM PC, etc).