I don't think this is a fair comparison. If I had the skills (which I certainly don't), I could make a cool Disney style movie and make it available for anyone, and even charge them whatever I liked.

I explicitly cannot do this for iOS apps. There is just no way for me to get my app in front of people's eyes without paying the Apple tax.

If I was prevented from distributing my movie somehow by Disney, you might have a point.

It's more like if Disney owned the DVD standard and could dictate who could and couldn't put content on it.

Then we'd all have a half dozen completely incompatible physical media players and so on.

Not an accurate comparison.