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If you replace a term with a completely different term you often get a completely different meaning.

Okay... Now replace RAM with "Weather App". How is the situation different?

Now replace "iPhone" with "Nespresso" and "Weather App" with "Coffee Beans"...

One is software and is explicitly made to be replaceable. Your iPhone will not stop working because you uninstalled the Weather app. It might be slightly more unhappy if you desolder the RAM.

Neither is made to be replaceable by Apple.

The EU argues that one ought to be replaceable and not the other. Yet the line of which components should be replaceable and which not is undefined.

And Apple wasn't planning to use USB-C either, but the EU didn't argue and told them to. Apple does not get to override laws. They either obey, or leave the market.