Yes, and the iron grip Apple has on their own platform's application market is not a secret, nor have they been secretive about having an iron grip. I am total

Yes, and the iron grip Apple has on their own platform's application market is not a secret, nor have they been secretive about having an iron grip. I am totally on board with the mindset that Apple needs to loosen their grip: I think it's long-term-detrimental to their platform and it keeps a lot of really innovative ideas out. And if this blog post had said "I wanted to do something really innovative, but I can't because Apple holds an iron grip", I'd be 100% behind the author. But Apple has the right to run their marketplace as they see fit, and developers who sign on and expect that Apple will not act as they always have, and as their ToS says they will, are deluding themselves.