> No, the EU mandates that Apple cannot implement OS features for the sole benefit of its own hardware-offering in a different market, because this is not fair competition.

Thats would involve exposing public api ie “a burden”

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rickdeckard 4 days ago | parent [-]

No, forget APIs. Apple was found to have created a burden in the OS for all their competitors in the Accessory-market, by introducing elements only available to their own brand, and are now required to remove those again.

A duelist was found to arrive with a gun to a knife-fight and is asked to either allow everyone a gun or use a knife.

Now we're arguing that it's a burden to him because bringing a gun is his innovative approach to win knife-fights, and making it a gunfight or keeping it a knife-fight is hindering the innovation he brings.

Apple OWNS the terms for this fight. If they believe that their fights should evolve to be gun-fights then all players should have guns.

It was decided that they can't continue restricting guns while shooting all knife-duelists, at least not in the EU.

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dilyevsky 4 days ago | parent [-]

If you chose to show up with just a knife to an actual armed conflict that's on you buddy. Apple doesn't own european market their share is below 35%, just another case of classic european bureaucracy

	▲	rickdeckard 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Read the metaphor you're trying to dismantle. Apple owns the terms of this fight, they dictate that everyone else is only allowed knives. The EU stepped in and said that they can't distort duels like that any longer