RetroGradeBE

Yes, users can act completely idiotic. It still does not mean one company can have a chokehold on a massive industry stifling any competition as they see fit.

Had Apple acted by their own rules in the first place, they probably wouldn’t be under this much scrutiny by several governments.

Could be even worse now, because in the 2008 financial crisis the US government was actively combatting the crisis by putting trillions of dollars in the economy. In this case it’s the US gov driving the madness.

Croky in Belgium is good aswell!

As much as i agree with the commission on this, the fact that there is no credible alternative to these US-based systems is a failure on our part.

It’s good we can force foreign powers to obey to our laws, it would be better if we have our own systems to compete.

Not in the first few years of the tech, too risky for my taste.

You are almost in exactly the same boat as I am, the biggest bottleneck is consumer tech. I’ll definitely keep my iPhone, but have switched for all my subscriptions to European alternatives. (Pcloud for cloud storage, Surfshark for VPN) Installed Linux on my pc instead of Windows. Unfortunately, some services like Whatsapp are difficult to get rid off.