It definitely makes Apple great. There is an immesurable ammount of absolutely fantastic apps and games on that market place. There's shit in every marketplace. If you want to argue how cumbersome it can be to discover the gems, that's another debate entirely, but the actual amount of highly rated and good quality software on the App Store is unmatched.

I mean that there are more good iOS exclusive apps than there are good Android exclusive apps. It's common knowledge that Apple has the vastly superior marketplace. Since your OP was about being "in keeping with Apple tradition," I thought it was only fair to actually bring up the good "traditions" instead of just the criticized ones like you did.

Apple is as big as it is for a reason, and that reason isn't that 500m+ people are braindead morons who "can't tell that they're being scammed."

It's not a satire/fake news site. They report real information in a lighthearted manner.

Microsoft stopped apples advances into the gaming realm by buying halo up from under them. After that I would have reason to belive that apple would have reservations based on how cut throat the industry can be. They were undercut before they could plant one foot down.

It sounds familiar to me, but don't know...

i prefer orange