[kirstenbirgit]

EU forgets that this kind of overzealous, micromanaging intervention only reduces incentives to innovate new features and products. If the EU forces companies with a competitive edge (better software, in this case) to make it available to their competitors, what’s the point?

I can make my own decisions about which platforms and software to use, thank you very much. I don’t need or want EU to force companies to build software and products a certain way for some pipe-dream goal of making everything "interoperable."

And if anything, given that EU has repeatedly failed to implement sensible tech regulation, why should the same institution have the authority to dictate how tech businesses build their products?

[arrrg]

Apple has been completely unwilling to play ball. They behaved like a petulant child through all of this.

I’m completely convinced that no one at the EU wants to micro manage any of this. But they have to. Because Apple has been failing to read the room for years.

[regularjack]

You think it makes sense that non-apple smartwatches work fine on Android but not on iOS? If I have a Garmin and decide to switch phones from Android to iOS, the Garmin won't work as well.

That doesn't make sense to me and this is what will be fixed.

[elric]

What do you mean "what's the point"? Before Apple got to the point of being subject to this particular attempt at regulation, it amassed billions in revenue and reached a 3+trillion dollar valuation.

Very few startups (innovative or otherwise) will ever come close to that. Only a handful of companies globally are subject to these regulations.