[_1tem]

> don't install artificial barriers to differentiate your products

Some barriers are not artificial. I’m am an engineer and many of Apple’s engineering feats are only possible due to highly controlled interfaces. See for example audio applications that have very high performance requirements, such as low latency audio. It is literally impossible to build this on Android due to the interoperability layer being too slow. Many useful features on Apple devices take advantage of the highly tuned performance that can only happen on devices in the same ecosystem. Take for example Live Translation on AirPods. It’s very hard to get the same level of performance over a public API. Lots of Apple Silicon advantages in battery usage come about due to their deep integration with all parts of the hardware stack — that level of performance would be impossible over an interoperable stack. This is not about walled gardens, this is about building better performing devices with better experiences. It is much harder, near impossible, to build Apple-quality experiences over third party hardware.

I am completely against artificial walled gardens and artificial barriers but I believe many of Apple’s strict barriers are real engineering performance advantages.

[troupo]

> Some barriers are not artificial.

The ones the EU is pointing at, and the ones that Apple is whining about, are completely artificial.

> Take for example Live Translation on AirPods. It’s very hard to get the same level of performance over a public API.

It's trivial to get the same performance. All you have to do is actually let others build the same functionality.

Apple both withholds the APIs and prohibits others from building the same functionality.

> I am completely against artificial walled gardens and artificial barriers but I believe

"... that Apple is completely entitled to any and all walled garden"

[_1tem]

> It's trivial to get the same performance.

It’s literally impossible to build realtime audio apps with ultra low latency on Android. People have been trying for decades. Not trivial at all.

Microsoft and Google and open source devs have tried to build something as good as a MacBook Pro for decades and failed. Because the extremely high performance and polished experience comes from the highly integrated hardware and software stack that only Apple has. Precisely because it is not interoperable. I as an engineer prefer to support fewer devices and make the experience with those few devices better rather than support lots of devices and integrations but crappily.

[troupo]

Again, no one expects Apple to build low latency audio for others. Literally no one. Not even EU.

That is not what Apple is told to do.

I've provided two links to examples of what Apple is asked to do, and you ignored both. Just like Apple. Pretending that people are asking it to do impossible and totally unrelated things.