In the U.S. maybe. In the EU Apple could have sorted this out with regulators without having to involve lawsuits and legal proceedings. Unfortunately Apple ha

In the U.S. maybe. In the EU Apple could have sorted this out with regulators without having to involve lawsuits and legal proceedings. Unfortunately Apple has a strong deeply held conviction about its walled garden which it’s unwilling to compromise on. Tim Cook’s hundreds of millions in salary/bonus are dependent on Apple being able to extract a 30% cut out of the entire app and media ecosystem.