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I don't see the ban of using other development languages than C, C++ and Objective-C (and JavaScript) as a move worthy of monopolistic accusations. However, the ban of third party analytics is a different matter and that could well lead into federal action, IMO. Then again, the most recent statistics from AdMob show that Android devices generate more ad requests so it might be hard to argue that Apple is abusing monopolistic power over competing ad networks.

Overall, I think all these changes are "business as usual" for Apple and Jobs. Apple is a design-first company and they absolutely want to maintain their control of the design of the whole iPhone ecosystem, albeit giving some leeway to third party App developers. I happen to appreciate that there is one such company operating in the consumer electronics space and that they don't price their products crazy high like Bang & Olufsen, for example.