What's funny is that people have completely forgotten that when iOS first came out Apple was saying that developers should make ONLY web apps! And everybody had kittens at the suggestion! It was months before Apple released a SDK and opened the app store. So now developers are doing what Apple wanted them to do in the first place, and somehow that's "out-smarting" Apple? Hah! The collective amnesia of the tech press is hilarious.
As to the importance of the app store to Apple's bottom line, Apple makes the vast majority of its money on hardware, not software. They really don't care where the apps are, so long as they work on Apple products. The App Store has proven to be a nice bonus, but cloud apps are going to serve Apple just as well. They still help sell Apple products.
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