Complying with the European Union's Digital Markets Act has been a dance with Apple. They don't want to lose a huge source of revenue, some of which they should not be receiving. e.g., Apple shouldn't be receiving any percentage on subscriptions. They're not adding any value to the subscription.
Out of the various huge Silicon Valley companies, I trust Apple the most but will never trust them fully. I'm sure they're positioning themselves to have indirect control of your life from your ears to your car.
Had they all all these products 20 years ago, maybe I would be more invested in what they're doing. Right now, I'm okay with having alternatives.
The Digital Markets Act is giving consumers in the European Union the possibility of alternatives. It's also giving consumers the chance to fail, to have unusable devices.
Part of compliance is to allow alternatives for everything, including the App Store. However, the other part is that you'll be able to delete the App Store. What happens when a consumer deletes the App Store without downloading another? Perhaps, they can just use a web browser to download another, if they have a web browser available. However, they might have deleted the installed web browser, also.
We can guess that the world will come together and have similar laws everywhere, eventually. We can just view what happens in the European Union to anticipate problems elsewhere. Hopefully, other governments will do better, but it isn't likely.
By the time all of this is settled, will Apple or Google or Microsoft even exist?
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