Megacorps like Walmart and EA would never order 50,000 kiosks to be built knowing that Apple (or U.S. gov) could get a court injunction within hours of them being deployed.
This is the very nature of rackeeting (in this case the gov being the mob boss). You don't have to actually make good on the threat for it to be effective.
If you still don't believe me, go knock on a few doors on Sand Hill road and pitch just this: "Its like RedBox but for the App Store. We put kiosks at every Walmart and Kroger and install a new App Store". The VCs won't need you to go further and explain your market projections or your team background. They'll have heard enough already.
You may be right, if so, my info is going on 8 months old ;).
I read yesterday that Apple is now blocking use of their store (books was the example) if they detected your phone was unlocked. So now, they're on tack 2. We'll see who has enough money to sue them to stop doing this.
This is the very nature of rackeeting (in this case the gov being the mob boss). You don't have to actually make good on the threat for it to be effective.
If you still don't believe me, go knock on a few doors on Sand Hill road and pitch just this: "Its like RedBox but for the App Store. We put kiosks at every Walmart and Kroger and install a new App Store". The VCs won't need you to go further and explain your market projections or your team background. They'll have heard enough already.