You don't need to ask for permission to do anything on your own device. What you need permission is, to use Apple's tools that makes it orders of magnitude easier to do it.
Just remember, the first iPhone did not have an AppStore or SDK. People made apps for it anyway.
People also often confuse the right for access to Apple's app distribution services with the right to run apps on their own device. In reality, you can have a torrent client or anything you want on your phone without asking Apple for permission. That doesn't mean that it's going to be as easy as installing it from AppStore though. You will need to thinker harder.
Why wouldn't anybody be fine with that? Of course it would have been amazing if they let us do more with their tools but I simply don't see how they are obligated to do it.
I also like how Apple is the opinionated elitists design house. As long as they are not the dominant force in this space, I'm fine with them doing things their way.
I see some people argue that Apple is dominant and everything changes when Apple does something but that's simply because Apple is really great at designing it. There are also many thing that Apple does and then doesn't stick. It's the stuff that they simply fail to design well.
It's good to have someone around that doesn't race to the bottom and have opinions on how things should be made.
Just remember, the first iPhone did not have an AppStore or SDK. People made apps for it anyway.
People also often confuse the right for access to Apple's app distribution services with the right to run apps on their own device. In reality, you can have a torrent client or anything you want on your phone without asking Apple for permission. That doesn't mean that it's going to be as easy as installing it from AppStore though. You will need to thinker harder.