Quite an authoritarian take.
Apple's choice was apparently to die as a hammer-wielding hero or live long enough to become the patriarch on the telescreen.
I don't know where I fall on this issue personally, but siding with Apple is probably more authoritarian.
I still find it weird that people spent the last 5 years complaining about practices that started when they still were an underdog, and which were applauded at the time, and which don't even fully apply now to all developers anyway.
But you're right, they're not underdogs any more.