EU law will force Apple to blow open its entire hardware and software stack

I largely agree, but I think this goes beyond proprietary services. We pay exorbitant fees for hardware that we cannot run software of our choice on. That is crazy, and the fact that the option has been taken away from us over time is very concerning. Even if it's not in the interests of the "average smartphone user", being able to run alternative OSes are what fosters healthy competition. Apple needs a community to push them forward by forcing them to confront difficult issues; look at MacOS. When Apple competes with it's audience, everyone wins. What we can't allow is abuse of the capitalist gambit we've set up for them: if they want to play the "largest company in the world" game, they have to play fair.