Absolutely not. He was the trailblazer for walled gardens and locked down systems. He only fought back when it cost him profit. The iPhone pretty much paved the path for systems where the user isn’t allowed to do as they wish and software producers have to go through the one and only distribution path.
So you never heard of game consoles where as far back as the original NES, Nintendo only allowed third parties a limited number of games each year and required them to use their manufacturing facilities for cartridges?
