[mrangle]

Apple does compete on its own merits. Its merits are that it built and controls the operating system and hardware that people choose to buy.

If other companies have an issue, then they can build their own software, their own hardware, and compete.

[withinboredom]

Companies don’t make laws (unless you live somewhere like the US); people do. If the people say “stop fucking around and rent-seeking” then companies should have to do that. It’s pretty simple, really. Just because you build your own hardware and software doesn’t give you the right to do whatever you want.

[mrangle]

Gibberish. Also, you don't know what "rent seeking" means.

[chgs]

Apple is free to leave the European market if it doesn’t like the rules.

[mrangle]

True. Perhaps it should.

[PlunderBunny]

I bet the Robber Barons said something like “Don’t like it? Build your own railway!” too.

[mrangle]

A computer and phone company, in a sea of computer and phone companies, is not equivalent to a rail company.