> Some barriers are not artificial.

The ones the EU is pointing at, and the ones that Apple is whining about, are completely artificial.

> Take for example Live Translation on AirPods. It’s very hard to get the same level of performance over a public API.

It's trivial to get the same performance. All you have to do is actually let others build the same functionality.

Apple both withholds the APIs and prohibits others from building the same functionality.

> I am completely against artificial walled gardens and artificial barriers but I believe

"... that Apple is completely entitled to any and all walled garden"