"Apple appears to have forgotten their own roots as a company that took the great design ideas of others and built on them: now that they *are* the great design laboratory, they are trying to prevent just the kind of sharing that created them, and which helps the industry to thrive."

Most large organizations try and stamp out whatever allowed them to come into existence, as a way of discouraging competition. Most of them don't pay attention to the health of the ecosystem in which they are embedded; but they *do* pay strong attention to their market share inside that ecosystem. Even if their actions tend towards the shrinkage or eventual destruction of the ecosystem.