[arghwhat]

I get sad reading the "What EU users are saying..." messages. A lot of them seem to be Apple fans that just bought their evasive narrative.

I fully understand that some Apple users are perfectly happy with Apple's closed garden, but they must understand that its primary and almost sole purpose is profit maximization and the counter-arguments to opening up are purely about avoiding any risk to said profit.

While there could very well have been technical considerations to be had, all their answers to DMA have been lies, non-compliance and malicious compliance, as they have no intention of discovering whether their margins relied on the walled garden or not.

I personally suspect that the impact would be quite small exactly because Apple users tend to enjoy and stay within the Apple experience (myself included when I used Apple products - there is no harm to prefering that user experience), but they don't intend to risk parting with as much as a cent regardless of what benefits users, and will happily burn money lobbying against that.

They do not have your interests in mind here, and their way of maliciously presenting this such that you as a user will be bothered and blame regulation for their "inability to deliver" is very much lobbying 101.