That's a good point, and definitely true. That is probably even worse for Nokia though. If existing users can continue relatively unaffected, but new customers are essentially out of luck, the platform is totally choked off from any growth. Without the app, I don't see how they could do anything other than stop selling the product.

I'm not familiar with the particulars of the dispute between Apple and Nokia, but it's pretty scary how wide ranging the collateral damage from this sort of thing could be.