I've been thinking about this and I think Apple has two motivations.
1. The DMA is striking at the heart of their revenue model by targeting the app store. Tim Cook testified before Congress and said that Apple would be "giving up our total return" on their intellectual property if they did not monetize the app store aggressively. So my read is that this move is intended to prevent a shift to PWAs as a way to get around the new policies.
2. Legislation like the DMA, if successful, could spread to other countries, much in the same way the link tax spread from Australia to Canada. I think Apple has an explicit goal to make this legislation as painful as possible, for both the legislators and the citizens, so that other countries do not attempt to pass similar laws.
There was a time between 2007 and 2011 where I bought Apple computers and was a big fan. These days, despite the very cool new processors Apple has released, it's very hard for me to see them as anything other than antagonistic. What a fall from grace.
1. The DMA is striking at the heart of their revenue model by targeting the app store. Tim Cook testified before Congress and said that Apple would be "giving up our total return" on their intellectual property if they did not monetize the app store aggressively. So my read is that this move is intended to prevent a shift to PWAs as a way to get around the new policies.
2. Legislation like the DMA, if successful, could spread to other countries, much in the same way the link tax spread from Australia to Canada. I think Apple has an explicit goal to make this legislation as painful as possible, for both the legislators and the citizens, so that other countries do not attempt to pass similar laws.
There was a time between 2007 and 2011 where I bought Apple computers and was a big fan. These days, despite the very cool new processors Apple has released, it's very hard for me to see them as anything other than antagonistic. What a fall from grace.