I think forcing them to support pwa installs could be even better and, ironically, match the original vision of steve jobs better, with mostly webapps.
Internal emails from Apple have been released in various court trials. There is publicly available email proof that Steve Jobs had to be convinced to release public APIs and make an App Store months after the iPhone was released.
I'd have a link but it looks like techemails.com have put their archives behind a paywall...
