[mathw]

That's not actually what the reply said, it was extremely noncommittal as you'd expect. If you contacted one of your MEPs they might have a stronger opinion they'd want to promote, but the DMA team are just not going to render judgement based on one email.

But my initial reading of F-Droid's explanation was "hang on, Google are going to get slammed for the same thing Apple got slammed for" so I hope they do come to the same conclusion and do it quickly, before F-Droid is entirely dead.

Maybe that's Google's intention - that the time lag on enforcement is going to be long enough that they achieve half the goal anyway.

[throwaway2037]

    > that the time lag on enforcement is going to be long enough that they achieve half the goal anyway.

This is the primary legal strategy of (1) tobacco companies, (2) investment bank pushing risky products to unknowing customers, and (3) big oil&gas' environmental policy. Regarding EU DMA laws, I feel that Apple and Google are pursuing the same strategy.