"to prevent the installation of anything that does not come from the apps store"
While this may be true of apps, this is not true of music, movies, or ebooks. All of which can be imported into iTunes, and will appear on your iDevice. Music not purchased through iTunes, movies not purchased through iTunes, etc....
And this would be the main reason that they have backed off from their Linux development. It does not make good business sense to them to finish development of a product that most users of this platform expect to get for free.
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"to prevent the installation of anything that does not come from the apps store"
While this may be true of apps, this is not true of music, movies, or ebooks. All of which can be imported into iTunes, and will appear on your iDevice. Music not purchased through iTunes, movies not purchased through iTunes, etc....
And this would be the main reason that they have backed off from their Linux development. It does not make good business sense to them to finish development of a product that most users of this platform expect to get for free.