If it would get re-phrased a la "An important function of modern society", would nail it. Unfortunately! I loathe where societies are progressing towards. Imagine having to deal with all this tech BS when you are 70+. Travel is already complicated, dealing with fully automated "customer service" methods and figuring out why app xy stopped working right when you need it as a run-of-the-mill type of person is at lesst a nuisance and at worst a nightmare when preventing you from fulfilling life's chores.
But of someone things that how app store is administered is more important function in modern society than say food production then it is not looking well though out.
(I would prefer catastrophic breakdown or malicious takeover to happen with app store rather than food supply if I would need to choose between these two, and there are still many more important functions of modern society before you get to app stores. If food supply collapses I and my family and my friends will be likely dead within month. If app store collapses there are bad consequences but far from "everyone I love dies from starvation".)
(but yes, app store ARE important function of modern society and Beeper Mini seems to illustrate some of ways how current situation is broken)
