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I understand that as an Apple fan you view the tech world through that lens. However, in doing so you misalign facts and brand lies as truth.

You say that Android was an illegal ripoff of Java, well Sun (before it was bought by Oracle) gave permission to Google to use it, Google also made modifications which separated itself enough that even the Supreme court didn't find them guilty. Yet in ignorance or maybe malice you make these claims to solidify your lies and fool the uninformed.

You say Android users are cheap pirates that want anarchy, maybe you have forgotten the jailbreak era of the iPhones.

You say everyone copies from Apple, but wasn't it Apple who copied the GUI from Xerox and what about the plethora of functions that Apple copied from Android, widgets, AOD etc. Are you oblivious to them or ignorant? or will you make up excuses to try to justify them while you blast others.

You say others make 'me too' products, what about Apple Maps, Apple music, Apple TV+ are they also 'me too' products, just because they weren't first to a market. Also, going by that logic isn't the Apple Vision Pro a 'me too' product, a rip-off of Meta but with higher specs and 7 times the price.

You say that other systems are full of malware, well that is exaggerated and even what percentage exists is the tradeoff for having an open system which provides freedom. But what benefit did iOS provide with its walled garden? Was it not affected by Pegasus, has it not been affected by zero day exploits? The only thing it did was make Apple's wallet heavier by restricting third party services and promoting their own alternatives.

You say others destroy your privacy, yet Apple gives your Siri data to contractors for processing, and has been sued on multiple occasions for not upholding their promises regarding privacy. They have restricted other ad networks only to build their own and profit from it.

You seem to portray the app store as infallible yet one can read articles all the time of scam apps fooling people and taking their money. Has Apple ever come forward and refunded these people because they use Apple and their closed app store, No they couldn't care less.

Developers are so fed up of Apple that they don't even want to make apps for the Vision Pro and yet you seem to be in the delusion that it is a benefit to society and to everyone.

Apple went out of its way to cripple other web engines on iOS to stop PWAs from becoming a viable replacement to the App store and yet you say they are not anticompetitive.

Apple products sell so well because more than the technology, Apple has marketed itself as a premium product for rich people. That is why we have gold Apple watches and $19 handkerchiefs. There have been instances where people have sold their kidneys for an iPhone, have no food yet bought an iPhone on finance. Do you think that they did it because they thought it was a better phone? Don't kid yourself.

You believe Apple is being punished, No, the government has made laws equal to all companies including Microsoft and Google, yet Apple is the biggest whiner and seems to believe that it should get special treatment. Tough luck.

Maybe not insult other brands while making a fanboy esque article and even if you do at least state facts.

The EU, unlike the US, believes in the spirit of the law, instead of the word of the law, Apple should have realised that.

Apple cannot win this one by using legal loopholes. I suspect if this continues we may see one of two possibilities:-

I) Apple exits the EU.

II) The EU bans Apple within its borders.

I suspect Apple doesn't want to give up the European market to Samsung and Google, so the first one is highly dependent on whether Apple can still get a profit with side loading existing.

Also, it is possible that other countries implement a DMA equivalent law (Japan is already in the process of doing so) so exiting markets will be shooting themselves in the foot.

One thing is sure, the next decade will be different for Apple than the previous one.

Don't think it's going to sway any of the big guys.

Apple once made a presentation for Netflix on why they should not remove in-app purchases from the app, didn't do nothing. The overall benefits were very low for Netflix and the math was ultimately to the benefit of Apple.