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Apple was ordered by EU antitrust regulators today to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals, with the latter spelling out details on how to go about it in line with the bloc’s landmark rules and where non-compliance could lead to an investigation and fines.
Essentially yeah.
The competitor, Android, allows for open communication between different devices made by different manufacturers. So you’ve got one manufacturer, who despite other problems, is fully open, and then you’ve got a closed off manufacturer who hoard everything for themselves.
The EU just wants to enforce an open market where everything is intercompatible. It’s along the same lines as forcing Apple to move over to USBC, it’s about standardizing something that should already be standardized, but isn’t because corporate interests got involved. Apple were given a decade worth of warning on this, and they did nothing to improve matters.