The App Store is full of paid search result placements etc. Search for app x and first result is competitor y etc. It's a slippery slope.
it's really not. each individual step down that staircase is considered and intentional.
The slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
Yes, they will consider and intentionally take steps to make more money.
Just dismissing any argument about a slippery slope as a fallacy is lazy (as is quoting logical fallacies in any argument)
show me a slippery slope that is not a series of deliberate decisions, then.
i've never seen one. every single step down that slope required someone who wanted to go further down the slope and took the action(s) required to go further.
there is no involuntary sliding down slopes here.