Does the DMA still allow forcefully bundling services with purchases? If so, that'd be a big missed chance. Reminder: It means that additionally to assuming th

Does the DMA still allow forcefully bundling services with purchases? If so, that'd be a big missed chance. Reminder: It means that additionally to assuming the liabilities of a purchase you also assume the liabilities of renting, but lose out on most of the benefits of both: You pay "owning" price, but still have to rent the service, having to regularly pay and depend on the vendor doing well and supporting the product for it to be useful for you. They have a monopoly on the service and can thus do classical rent seeking in nearly unlimited ways. Many companies have explicitly announced that this will be their strategy going forward, so the problem will almost certainly grow bigger: What's the consumer gonna do? Return the device they already started to depend on? Get one of the many alternatives?Haha, sure! The potential for abuse is huge and the future for abusive companies bright. Not only will you own nothing, you will also still pay a big upfront price to not own things. If there was a provision that forced interoperability between platform services (e.g. let me configure my own iCloud server), there would be a market and competition for these services, which would keep companies honest and mitigate a lot of e-waste.