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The issue with that is the resulting negative PR. And of course other countries are taking notes and sometimes use EU regulations for inspiration.

Most people don’t give a shit about 3rd party app stores. I doubt 90% of iPhone users even know this is happening. (I say this as an iPhone user myself). So, I’m not sure negative PR is that much of a motivator.

Note this already happened with some software, e.g. Windows EU editions excluding Windows Media Player.

I will just ask somebody to purchase iphone from Eu.

You might also need an EU iCloud account and an EU SIM.

There are many ways Apple could region lock it and the source of the iPhone would probably the least likely.