Being a blind fanboy has nothing to do with anything.No I want third party installs, my Android phone and Windows PC work fine thanks... difference is I'm not a blind fanboy.
Since when has a store HAVE to have another competing store operate within it's framework? We see today stores like Best Buy and Target operate Apple stores within their stores. This is a choice they made to partner up with Apple. They are free to do so. They don't HAVE to do so. They could just sell the products Apple sells, and sell it for what they can. At their markup, etc.
What Epic, and I guess "others" want to do is FORCE Apple to allow this to happen. Instead, they should make their own device, sell it to billions of people, and avoid the tax all together. They can do what they want.
But, they can't. They want Apples customers and their cake too. Sorry, no. You compete or you partner up. You don't get to just wine about "no fair, Apple will not let us make the money we could be making if they just let us have our own store on their platform. See Judge, unfair monopoly! Make them stop!".
So I would suggest if you want something more "open". Go buy another product. You, as the rest of the world has a choice. You don't have to purchase an iPhone or an iOS device. Why, again why is this SoooooOoooo hard for people to understand? You don't like something, you can pick something else. iPhones are not the only game in town, you can pick another vendor, pay a lower price, hack your device to do exactly what you want it to do, etc..
This monopoly BS has to stop. If Apple was the only maker of phone devices and OS's to run on those devices. You could have a point. But, it's FAR from it. If it was such a big deal to all these developers, they would have LONG boycotted Apple's App Store.