A cryptic and vengeful fist-shake at the EU Commission, which surely has lower-hanging-fruit to take aim at.
Tension between governing bodies and corporations is normal, signifies health and there's not enough of it.
Apple seems to be having an exceedingly long period of second-album-syndrome after a fifteen-year Imperial Phase©.
© Neil Tennant
Their "friends" are mostly European, so they sometimes do something for EU citizens against the interests of foreign industries.
I feel that they're too keen on using Europe as some kind of club that encourages countries to soften in order to join - which I like - and less keen on fighting for the citizens, although this might be down to a disconnect and associated cluelessness about how things work.
This whole anti-encryption crusade has a Mr Bean-like naive bumbling line of attack, unlike the parallel UK approach which is decidedly supervillain-like.