While your post has the superficial form that a retort might have, that word doesn't mean what you think it means...
Melodrama: (noun) a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions. Language, behavior, or events that resemble drama of this kind.
If you don't see Jobs's writings on the subject as emotionally overwrought appeals ("We have to keep our platform pure to protect you, our loyal user!"), we'll have to agree to disagree.
This is exactly like a "Won't somebody think of the children?" appeal. What else do you call it when the company rejects both a programming tool and a dictionary for "bad language?"
"We have to keep our platform pure to protect you, our loyal user!"
If you want to make a case that they are making emotionally overwrought appeals, you should have the decency to provide a direct quote to make your case. Abusing quotations marks by putting them around your own subjective interpretation just tells me that you've got nothing to offer.
If I were being paid to make a formal argument, perhaps you'd be correct. As it is, I think you know very well what's meant, and that it is an accurate paraphrasing of Jobs's words in light of his actions.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/apple-scratch-app/