Freelance (DPS pro account) query

Hi all,
Bob Levine has kindly cleared up a lot of my confusion on this for which I'm very grateful.  However I have a final query that I thought I'd ask here if that's ok.
I am a freelance designer specialising in printed magazines and I'd ideally want to be able to offer ios/android newstand versions to existing and new clients.  In my head I thought I could purchase a pro DPS account and be able to do this, but I've found out that even with the pro account I could only make 1 multi-folio app.
So for me to offer this as a service I'd have to have my clients each purchase a pro account for their app and I would design their publication/folios for it.  Obviously the client would have to manage payments of their account, otherwise I could end up with a number of different accounts on behalf of numerous clients to take care of!
Now, if the above is correct, then what is the advantage of buying a pro account over going with one of the many companies who give you their own inDesign plug in and deal with submission etc, sometimes for slightly cheaper, than the pro account subscription.  Is it just a case of having more freedom with the design if you use the DPS plug-in?
I'm obviously missing something but I'm trying to get a clear understanding of the costs of different options  before I dive in.  I wish the adobe info would do that :/
Hope that's clear, sorry if it's not!
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Ian

Thanks for the reply Brian.  I totally agree that a small or individual licence to publish apps would be a much more elegant solution.  I mean the clients would have their own apple id so the certs etc would be in their name.  I'm amazed it's this convoluted.
It seems that it would be clearer if instead of calling the different accounts 'licences' or 'accounts', they should just say it's a monthly app maintenance fee or something like that, because it really is linked to the app that's created rather than the professional designer who created it.
I'd be interested though in your thoughts on the benefits of going with Adobe's publishing suite over one of the other companies out there.  I'm very much an adobe user of course so I naturally look at the DPS first in the hopes that it would be the best for inDesign interaction, but there's some pretty big publications that use plug-ins from other companies, although I'd still have the same hassle with having to manage different 'accounts' for different apps/clients.

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