From the article:

  The founder of Branch Metrics ... struggled to integrate
  with devices because of steps Google took to block them.

> Sounds like Google is getting punished for being a more open ecosystem than Apple.

  A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the
  informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from
  the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing
  or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this
  fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

If this is branch.io we’re talking about, we might see a similar argument being made against Apple’s ATT and parameter stripping.

"More open" until it hurts their bottom line.

People really think Google is doing it for their goodwill instead of the optics, huh.