I don't think apple is power mad in the way you're making them out to be, like some sort of megalomaniacal overlord tenting his fingers as he watches the mayhem

I don't think apple is power mad in the way you're making them out to be, like some sort of megalomaniacal overlord tenting his fingers as he watches the mayhem unfold. I think the just don't really care that much. Because, after all, what else are you going to do? Not develop for the iOS ecosystem? I mean, they even named their platform with another well known (amongst tech folk) platform ... I don't think they're evil, so much as they've inherited the Jobsian condescension and indifference.