Of course they cry foul, those two things aren't comparable at all. Cost of switching to Android from Apple: walking down the street and buying a new phone. Co

Of course they cry foul, those two things aren't comparable at all. Cost of switching to Android from Apple: walking down the street and buying a new phone. Cost of switching from the EU to some other jurisdiction: move to another continent. Additionally, it's not the eu's market, Apple actually created the app Store and did significant work to make it real. It is apples, due to the long-standing principle of private property rights. The EU has done nothing to create that, mostly just taking control of pre-existing markets and infrastructures, so it is dystopian to talk about a government as if it owns the people within it. That's not how government is meant to be