@corduroy No, certainly not the virtuous cycle of the best apps (due to being written against the richest APIs) encouraging customers to buy into Apple’s hardware ecosystem one $1300, 40% margin phone at a time.
There are absolutely factions inside Apple who still in their heart of hearts believe the App Store was a mistake and dirty third party devs shouldn’t be allowed to sully their pristine platform with their poor taste garbage, let alone make money off the back of Apple’s hard work.
ratkins