Yea I agree that if you give people within a cage comforts from food, good internet, a pc, and so on, they'd want to remain in that cage. If all the good stuff is outside of that cage, then they'd want to leave it to get it.
I guess what must be done is to have people make amazing products, the best products, and have them only accessible on non-caged systems. Though if we're talking about open-source projects, that'll be difficult considering someone can come along and just fork the project and put it up on iOS store.
I guess there's no winning here?