There's is absolutely 0% chance this will fly. Apple is begging for a fine at this point, with their bad-faith malicious interpretations of the law.
1. The ecosystem is just much better, ie. the quality of apps is in another league compared to apps on Android or Windows.
2. Many amazing apps that are at the core of my company's workflow simply don't exist on other platforms at all. With no comparable equivalents.
3. We get many apps earlier. Even up to a year earlier. Example: Clubhouse. Running a company, my marketing team can't afford to be late to a new social media platform, risking that it becomes the new status quo. I can name a dozen apps that were 6 to 12 months late to Android vs. IOS :(
If these change I would happily move to Linux, or Windows (once they make the OS usable).
We use Linux servers for running Python/Node Scripts, and APIs.
We use 1 Windows machine to use a very specific data science app that only exists for Windows.
Before anyone says I'm a fanboy. I'm here to generate revenue for my company. I don't give 2 sh*ts about AAPL.
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But this is just me.
Why it won't matter to the public: The kids don't care. The want an iPhone.
You don’t have to load the app via Google play but your device needs to be managed by Google.
For android, you need to buy into all the ecosystem of Google to access their push notification service.
You can use android without google’s system, but you can’t use google push system.
On iOS you just can't unless you are fully blessed by Apple, and this is precisely the issue.
I am however pretty certain that said spinelessness wouldn't fly with the European public.
It is as democratic as the US presidency, which is also nominated by electors.
This is a tired talking point designed to sow doubt in the European project.
But one layer of indirection is not crazy, that's the way any minister in any country works - or the way the US presidency does.
You can't directly elect every single official - it just doesn't scale. It also doesn't really make sense in the commissioner case as different commissioners have different portfolios and which country gets what is subject to negotiation between member states.