App Store Setup

I may be glossing these forums over, and most of MSDN or TechNet for that matter, but I can not for the life of me find any reasoning as to why the SharePoint App Store is configured the way it is.
Why is this not a just a Site Collection Feature? Can someone explain why Microsoft chose for it is a requirement to set the App Store up on a separate domain?
Thank you in advance,
Matthew

The app store doesn't get set up on a separate domain. APPs run in a separate domain. It has to be that way since Apps all run on a dynamically generated domain name. The only way to resolve such a name effectively is to create a wildcard
DNS entry so that all addresses in a domain go to the SharePoint server. But the AppStore in a corporate environment is just one Site Collection per web application. Also, you don't have to actually set up apps to use a completely separate
domain. They can be set to run on a sub-domain or your existing domain. That does open some security risks, but in a lot of environments they are controllable in other ways and a sub-domain is acceptable.
Paul Stork SharePoint Server MVP
Principal Architect: Blue Chip Consulting Group
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