How Apple Kills Indie Developers
The google store operates in the same way.  Application developers need to band together and quit accepting these locked down store monopolies. They aren't good for consumers either. The usual justification is that these stores reduce fruad and malware, but I have found the opposite to be true. Having a single store leads to an aggressive race to the bottom, where gaming the store ranking is priority one.  Last two times I tried to find a rather obvious piece of software on apple store (a chess program, and a stopwatch program)  I couldn't even find stuff that wasn't misleading adware ridden crap.