[stavros]

Why would they get a fine for complying? You can install alternative app stores on iPhone perfectly well.

[surajrmal]

Apple also still requires all apps that go through their app store to be signed through their mechanism and retains the same ability to banish them.

[stavros]

Presumably not for apps in alternative stores.

[surajrmal]

It applies equally to all apps regardless of what app store they are delivered through.