>If he believes customers genuinely value his curated app store, let him show us.

They already did - they choose iOS over Android / other possibilities.

I value iOS hardware and operating system. I couldn’t care less about other apple software, and especially the app store which i only use as a package repository, and never as a recommandation or browsing tool (which is ideally what a store should be)

There was a time when the app store had higher quality apps, but the time when they’d be held to higher standards is long gone.

Just like the internet, it’s now flooded by crap.

> If he believes customers genuinely value his curated app store, let him show us.

I think they consider the massive success of the iPhone and App Store proof of that.

And they can continue to think that after they're forced to permit other app stores. It changes nothing, except their bottom line.

Probably, yeah.

I think it's proof that people really like the camera, or the battery life, or the calculator app, or etc.

Without actually asking people, how are sales numbers proof that buyers care a lot about any specific aspect of the product?

And why is everyone forgetting that obviously Apple does ask people and run focus groups, they know very well what their customers are most interested in.