All I can add [1] to @Cory Doctorow's latest is that Apple are the primary force keeping us from having powerful, interoperable apps on phones through suppression of the web. It's not an accident, and @npub1kn4y...3asa has the receipts [2]:

Pluralistic: Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU (26 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Apple's Antitrust Playbook - Infrequently Noted

Apple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulato...

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What Apple is trying to pull in the EU is as embarrassing for Cupertino as it is for the EU and the tech press that have credulously repeated Apple's talking points. The only good news is that the EU declined to unilaterally disarm:

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Apple's Antitrust Playbook - Infrequently Noted

Apple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulato...

You can tell the tech press is cooked because 95% of them can connect the dots. Apple's regulatory playbook is the same that Big Oil and Big Tobacco use: delay == winning. The steps: - try corruption (a.k.a. "lobbying" usually works) - plant fake "think tanks" (ACT, etc.) - set up false comparison points with public - petulance when laws pass - market "compliance" (but do not comply) - appeal to public, claim law hurts kittens ("jobs", "privacy", "american pie") https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law

"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers." -- Cupertino https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law