iPhone owners are prohibited from going to any other store. It's a monopoly.
Sure, Mussolini was a dictator, but he made the trains run on time.
Sure, Mussolini was a dictator, but he made the trains run on time.
The point isn't that Apple is just like a violent dictator.
The point is that these statements are (mostly) irrelevent to each other. The trains can run on time without a dictator.
The user can have a fine walled-garden experience but still retain the option to (in a reasonably supported way) tear down the walls.