[burnerthrow008]

The same reason they're not allowed to choose a phone with a walled-garden ecosystem: A few bureaucrats in Brussels don't like it.

[disgruntledphd2]

It's more that two sets of elected representatives (the Council and the Parliament) have passed laws that forbid this.

If you're an EU citizen then you can lobby both sets of representatives. If you're not then this isn't really any of your business.

Like, I hate that the NSA can slurp up all my data, but as a non US citizen I have limited ability to prevent this.