[vsl]

> Hard to follow this argument, not sure which companies in Europe "won't have to play by the same rules"...

Nobody except Apple is required to make its new features available to competitors, from day one, no?

> I hope this works out, it's ultimately to the benefit of the consumer.

See iPhone mirroring on Mac: not available in EU. This was entirely rational choice by Apple given how small market EU is, and it's hard to see them handling any new deeply integrated features any differently.

See also how GDPR worked out: clicking through bazillions of obnoxious banners and an occasional 451 error on obscure US websites that can't be assed with this nonsense.

Thanks to overreaching EU bureaucrats, I will now also "benefit" by missing out on features that I would probably personally consider beneficial (just as do iPhone mirroring). Thanks I guess?

[rickdeckard]

> Nobody except Apple is required to make its new features available to competitors, from day one, no?

Apple is not required to make its new features available to competitors. They need to make features of iOS available which they use to gain an unfair advantage when competing in markets of OTHER products used with their devices.

> See iPhone mirroring on Mac: not available in EU. This was entirely rational choice by Apple given how small market EU is, and it's hard to see them handling any new deeply integrated features any differently.

Same story here, a feature of iOS used to skew the competitive field on PCs.

If their conclusion is that the 100bn USD revenue they make in "small" Europe (vs 160bn in US) is not worth it to play fair with adjacent products like headphones, watches etc., then I'd like to see that. I'm sure someone would be willing to pick up that addressable market if they really decide to leave instead of trying to weaponize their user base against reasonable regulation...