[izacus]

What do you mean? EU is considering them as the same from the start. Are you talking about the process that happened because Apple appealed and wanted them separate?

[dagmx]

No, the EU considers them separately. Apple did successfully convince them that they are separate, however the EU then said that iPadOS would soon cross the threshold itself so would preemptively include it

[leshenka]

but in reality it's like two builds of the same OS with different features turned on (e.g. phone app vs split-screen support and such)