Folks like to rail against Apple’s “walled garden” approach to maintaining a single entry point for apps, but it’s prevented the sort of virus-ridden buggy crap I see riddling my Android-using family’s phones. There’s a solid benefit to maintaining a walled garden when it comes to software that I am happy to buy into.
That said, if this lawsuit’s outcome is to make the App Store a marketplace for indie developers without paying such a high premium, I’m all for it.