Indeed. And, as Copernicus and I shown, that reason is complete BS.

I am not assuming anything nefarious on Jolla's side. What I am assuming is that Jolla also fell into the Apple trap and set up their "store" in exactly the same way, "because everyone does it". They did not stopp for 5 seconds to consider the reasons. Far from being "unlike", they were "very much like". Not deliberately, but simply because in the world indoctrinated by Apple no one questions the holy truth.

Now suddenly someone asks for the reason. They cannot just say oops, we were brainwashed by Apple and did not think it through. They have to justify it post-factum. So they make up arguments like "performance" that, when you look more closely, hold no better than a house of cards.