That's the opposite of compliance. Not only they didn't get to change their own product to match some standard, they went straight against the spirit of the law (add more electronics and yet-another source of waste).

It was still considered a success because it at least reduced the need for proprietary AC adapters. Now it seems they want to expand on that to fix the proprietary cable/dongle issue too.

You never needed a proprietary AC adapter to charge an iPhone, just a "proprietary" cable.

Without the dongle you couldn't use iPhones with micro-USB AC adapters that don't have detachable cables.

However I agree that besides that specific circumstance, they were basically already compliant. The 2009 initiative wasn't targeting Apple specifically.