> Companies favoring their own services could be outlawed.
Apple would have to significantly redesign their entire OSs if this comes to pass. Will be really interesting to see!
Apple would have to significantly redesign their entire OSs if this comes to pass. Will be really interesting to see!
You can argue that someone else would fill that gap but they didn't really seem to be doing that before Apple stepped in. In fact I would guess that Apple would have preferred not to have developed them, it's not as if they generate any direct revenue.
I think you may have inadvertently stumbled on the point of these laws.
The EU doesn't want companies getting to Google or Apple scale, and all the power that amasses with it, without it being possible to ensure they're holding up EU ideals, rather than their own.
The sanest thing you can do is use LineageOS, but I can't really trust the LineageOS team since the april fools fiasco.
The lack of a third option is simply because of incompetence, not monopoly.
Would Apple itself be here if Microsoft didn't port Office to their OS?
But there could be a requirement that Apple open up their laptops to other OSs (and not just via virtualization). And honestly I don't see why that would be a bad thing.
You probably can't force them to write the drivers for other OS, but you could presumably force them to document the hardware.