Apple was trying to protect users from an app they allowed in their own App Store? If that were true they would simply have rejected the submission or removed it after the fact.
Exactly - Apple can still protect users by banning spyware from the store and applying the rules fairly (so including to themselves and other big companies).
A trivial and EU-proof solution against spyware is to make GDPR compliance a requirement for App Store submission. The reason they wouldn't do it is because it would have to apply to themselves as well.
A trivial and EU-proof solution against spyware is to make GDPR compliance a requirement for App Store submission. The reason they wouldn't do it is because it would have to apply to themselves as well.