[kj99]

People keep saying things like ‘affront to regulation’, but the regulation wasn’t written to make iOS more open. It was written to enable certain other middlemen more access to specific parts of iOS.

If the EU wanted to force iOS to be an open platform, they could have written a law to that effect.

I wish people would realize that just because the EU is regulating Apple and it’s fun to see power be brought to bear against Apple, it doesn’t mean the EU is actually competent to regulate the market.

[commoner]

> it doesn’t mean the EU is actually competent to regulate the market

The EU has done more to improve consumer choice in the mobile app industry than any other region in the world. They can go even further, but their progress so far certainly demonstrates competence.

[kj99]

What are you talking about?