[gwright]

One of the reasons that Apple does a bit of due diligence during the onboarding of a developer and establishing a developer agreement is to ensure they can reliably take legal action against developers that abuse the system.

The possibility of being banned from the Apple App Store ecosystem and/or legal reprisals is one way to deter unwanted behavior that can't be blocked through technical means.

[fennecbutt]

So due diligence is what their supposedly expensive to run online services to justify app store taking a huge cut is actually called then, huh.