Gee, is it because any scientist who even dares say something about the dangers of climate change is accused of being "political", and that's just the least that criminal propagandist will claim about them.

Wow, that makes even less sense than your usual bullshit.

Because Stallman.

Stallman was "right" insofar that he is responsible for all of this. Apple can't ship anything that is under GPL4.

Well, Epic offers you the chance to make Tim Sweeney richer. If that isn't worth it to you...

Which moron still uses Java? Oh right, you do.

Well, how are you going to finance your "nonprofit" store? By selling user data? By begging for tips? By simply not paying the bills?

How much is a 30% fee on a free app? Zero? Oh you mean, they have to pay 30% on a subscription they don't have to (and explicitly don't even want to) offer. IOW Spotify's problem is that they believe their users are too stupid to buy their subscription on their website. What they want, and what Apple has been fined for by the EU, is to tell users to go to their website to subscribe. Which Apple has allowed since before the fine BTW - if you offer an in-App subscription.

Of course Spotify's (and other's) real fear is that Apple's in-App subscriptions are just too convenient for the user, especially for cancelling. That was Netflix's stated reason to no longer offer new subscriptions on iOS - too many users were cancelling.

How nice of you to think of Netflix's 30% - when according to them that was never their problem. They stopped offering new subscriptions on iOS because too many users there canceled their subscription. They canceled the remaining subscriptions on iOS because they were stuck on old conditions, and they couldn't just change those conditions because Apple protects its customers.

You should ask that question ... somewhere else.

Perfection

And so is Stockholm Syndrome for that matter. Symptoms of PTSD.

Yup, because you believe that Apple is unable to handle that. Thanks for confirming you have no idea what you are talking about.

This isn't about the device. This is about you. You don't live in the EU, go shove something up your ass. Or go whining to the EU Commission, and let them tell you to shove something up your ass.

Sure. They couldn't have said "make M2s instead of M1". That's rule One of the TSMC club.