>Yeah sorry IANAL, the fact stands: EU thinks Apple is exploiting their market position to lock users down, EU doesn't like it and will make Apple comply.
This is moving the goalposts. Both my comment and the comment you first replied to was making normative statements about government policy, not questioning whether they have the authority to make such laws.
You jumped in into a question asked to someone else, I won't go into a pie throwing contest over an insignificant detail you care to win about, I don't have the grey text.
"Pretty outrageous" is good enough for me, if Microsoft tried to start charging for access to Win32 it would not succeed in any way, legal or with customers (it would be abusing market power), but because Apple has a strong hold on their users already they're supposed to just fall over and be fucked by fees that completely ruin any kind of "not very monetizeable" app because of their made up business rules? Markets are regulated everywhere, why should Apple be treated differently because they started from a different position?
This is moving the goalposts. Both my comment and the comment you first replied to was making normative statements about government policy, not questioning whether they have the authority to make such laws.