> The goal from the EU was clearly to make iOS have an android level of openness
And if I’m reading it right, both apple and the eu (and its citizens) can share a cake happily - a nonprofit org can create an app store without any fees (f-droid alternative), where end-users can safely install actually free and not freemium software, while meta/google will be blocked from leeching on the platform due to their network effect, at least doing free apps as a for profit company (aka, where the user itself is what gets sold) will not be financially sensible way, so they have to play by apple’s ways (which is again, both a win for apple and the end-users for stricter privacy regulations).
Also, I do think that certain specialized, commercial software may find its niche on alternative stores, and that’s also a win for everyone - they surely calculated that transaction costs not going through apple is better for them even with the cost.
And if I’m reading it right, both apple and the eu (and its citizens) can share a cake happily - a nonprofit org can create an app store without any fees (f-droid alternative), where end-users can safely install actually free and not freemium software, while meta/google will be blocked from leeching on the platform due to their network effect, at least doing free apps as a for profit company (aka, where the user itself is what gets sold) will not be financially sensible way, so they have to play by apple’s ways (which is again, both a win for apple and the end-users for stricter privacy regulations).
Also, I do think that certain specialized, commercial software may find its niche on alternative stores, and that’s also a win for everyone - they surely calculated that transaction costs not going through apple is better for them even with the cost.
So, I don’t see the problem.