[jamesrr39]

I live in the EU and can see value in live translation for me personally.

However, I'm happy with the decision. Sure, they are not available right now. But it's worth it for the long term picture. Imagine if this would be yet another Apple/Google-only market.

The tradeoff is right IMO.

[epolanski]

+1

And the users here on HN saying "it's expensive/difficult to give the same access to competitors" are beyond naive if they think this isn't about protecting the margins on the airpods by giving their own products access to the system competitors don't have.

[burnerthrow008]

And the people on the other side are beyond naive if they think it makes sense financially to develop a feature like this if the company developing it has to give it away for free.

One consequence of the DMA is that you can't build certain products because there is no way to recoup the development cost.