I really disagree with this viewpoint. There's no reason Apple can't simultaneously embrace open standards while providing implementations that enforce privacy and battery life and all that. They could even push to improve those standards. What you have instead is the push for an isolated platform to enforce a monopoly and exclusion. Many of us may like it, but count me out.

Even though you’re happy with the way Apple is handling the user rights you’ve abrogated to their control right now, make sure you’re still going to be comfortable with that indefinitely because the tighter you’re locked into their ecosystem the harder it’s going to be to escape if different leadership with different priorities or incentives comes into power and starts making changes you don’t like.

Enlightened despotism is the ideal government in many ways. The fatal flaw is guaranteeing succession of another enlightened despot instead of an ordinary tyrant. This is why preserving choice, however messy, is so important.