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And lose access to some of the countries with the highest iPhone market share per capita? (Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-mar

• gameoverhumans 3y ago
  I don't doubt that Apple sells a lot of iPhones to rich western European countries. But, uh, I gotta call the quality of data from that website into question when it shows North Korea as having 99% iPhone share ;)
  • jedberg 3y ago
    It sort of makes sense. They're getting market share by using geo-ip and browser agent strings. Either a bunch of hackers in NK are pretending to be iPhones, or some small lab of iPhones was marked as NK in the geo-ip database. But since the numbers are probably tiny 99% probably isn't too hard to achieve.
• shepherdjerred 3y ago
  I really wonder if Apple could force the EU's hand by not selling iPhones under these rules. I'm not saying they would, but I do wonder if EU citizens would pressure lawmakers to rollback these rules in that case.
  • kaba0 3y ago
    That decision would be an insanely huge monetary blow to Apple that is absolutely not in line with the few percent drop they might get from a slightly fewer installs on the AppStore. Even if the EU law is instantly reversed, that would still make a lot of people angry at Apple, or they might have already bought Android and won’t turn back for years. The Brussels effect is very effective!