>It seems to me that you've started with a conclusion and found facts that fit your thesis. That's the wrong way to go about reasoning.
So let's look at it logically then. In nearly every example I gave, did or did Apple not make a promise to developers which it then broke later, costing those developers time and revenue?
And did or did Apple not recently make a promise to developers regarding the availability of an existing, long-standing technological alternative, that being direct downloads of application binaries?
Would a reasonable person extrapolate from those past observations that Apple would behave in a similar manner when circumstances similar to those that I mentioned arose?
If not, then either you don't believe that people's future actions have anything to do with their past actions, or you disagree with a series of easily verifiable facts.