Alternative App Store
If Apple allowed ordinary users to install apps from other stores then there would be no case against Apple. It would be perfectly possible for Apple to allow third party stores with a warning (just like Android gives a warning when installing an apk from a third party). However Apple makes a lot of its money from its app store so it will not give users the choice until it is forced to. (After all if it lost then it might find its share price dropping !!!)
It would not surprise me to find Apple trying to find out how much it takes to bribe a group of judges.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
