> You can have a reasonable requirement where Apple should not be able to block other companies from providing similar services based on an iphone.

This is what the requirement is. The EU isn’t demanding that Apple provide the same experience for 3rd Party and 1st Party products. It only requires that Apple allow 3rd Parties access to the same capabilities as 1st Party products, so 3rd Parties could build 1st Party quality experiences.

Nobody is asking Apple to degrade their own products. They’re just demanding that Apple don’t artificially degrade other people’s products.

> That Apple did not want to open it up is a separate discussion.

This is the only point of discussion here. Because all the EU requires is that Apple open up their internal protocols so others can implement them.

> This is the only point of discussion here. Because all the EU requires is that Apple open up their internal protocols so others can implement them.

Apple supports Bluetooth just like Android phones do and does not degrade that.

A fair way of dealing with this is to ask Apple to license its technology to third parties, not be forced to give it away for free.