They're simply shifting one of their best ideas over to a new device. It's revolutionised how apps get delivered and created a huge barrier to entry for competing phones/devices. Every app (/song) you buy is a reason to not move to a new device.<p>Sure a few developers are more cranky than before but on balance there still seem to be more apps coming out than before. As a user I'm dismayed mostly by how much junk is on the app store.