I am on Apples side here. I have been a macOS and iPhone user for over a decade now, but have had Android devices and I use Windows for games and work.

I think what the EU has done to Apple is unfair. It is unfortunate in my opinion that they can’t just tell them to get stuffed. They have had to build probably 100-million LOCs just so EU have the right to pick their own browser, and yet Safari works just fine. In fact the great thing about Safari (and Apple knew this) is that compatibility was really good precisely because everyone on mobile was using the same browser. Now I’m just waiting to get those stupid “only supported in Chrome” pop ups on my mobile phone too..

Their core strategy has always been to keep cost low by supporting one hardware, one browser engine, one App Store. That’s how they kept things lean and integrated. The EU has forced them to take an approach that is fundamentally different to what made them successful. Some might say - who cares? It only affects the EU right? That’s to be seen.. we all might be affected globally from the security bugs caused by the unhardening of the OS required to conform to EU standards. And this huge code base is going to cost something to maintain and I doubt we won’t pay for that either.