None of Apple's platforms
became a walled garden. iOS is
more open than it was at first release when there was no SDK and the only sanctioned development method was web apps. OS X/macOS has acquired an
optional walled garden app store but has otherwise only become more restricted for security reasons, and those restrictions can be disabled by the user.
None of the predictions of doom have come to pass. Users have come to accept new mobile computing platforms that are less open than the PC platform, but there is no "whole ecosystem" that has transitioned to being a walled garden.