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Comment by theonlybutlet | Hacker News Reader

I can't understand how Apple keeps getting away scot-free, considering this type of scrutiny exists and how their services work.

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They’re under fire in the areas where their practices have noticeable consumer impact, namely the App Store, USB vs Lightning, and repairability.

Their services are an afterthought in terms of market share, particularly in Europe. For example no-one really gives a shit about iMessage and “green bubbles” here because most folks are just using WhatsApp.

Generally speaking Apple isn't as big in Europe

Yes, their marketshare overall is lower however in certain very large EU countries their market share is very high and their practices shouldn't escape scrutiny as this type of law also applies to smaller players. I suppose it's an issue of allocation of resources for the regulators. Smaller has less impact. The individual country regulators can also address this.

> in certain very large EU countries their market share is very high

And which EU countries are those? I know a few in the 60s% market share range but that would hardly be considered “very high”.

How is being the market leader by a wide margin anything else than "very high market share"?

Market share is market share, it's a percentage of the total market. Low 60s % at best in a few countries isn't very high.

When there's only two competitors and the margin is only 20% in some subset of the population, that's not "very high market share." EU-wide, Android is >70%.

Maybe it's hard to muster the enthusiasm to punish a company when you yourself are such a huge fan of their products.

Contrary to the US, in EU Apple isn't that popular.

Apple? You mean the company with mobile market share below Windows Phone, until Microsoft lost interest in that? ;)

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