I don't think I am misreading this. It's not subtext that Gruber thinks Apple is the smarter party here, it's text: > Which side is smarter? My money has been

I don't think I am misreading this. It's not subtext that Gruber thinks Apple is the smarter party here, it's text: > Which side is smarter? My money has been on Apple. Yesterday’s announcements, I think, show why. It's not my imagination that he thinks Apple found some kind of a loophole that nobody had considered. > The EC’s obsession with payment processing and commissions blinded them, I think, to the fact that Apple has always had other options for monetization. > I don’t see anything in the DMA that says Apple is prevented from charging fees to developers. It's pretty clear that he thinks Apple has won this fair and square, and the only way their square-jawed C-suite could be denied the victory is by the sniveling Eurocracts capriciously changing the rules. (And sure, maybe he thinks that it is even likely that the referees will change the rules given Apple's strategy. But then I don't get why he thinks Apple is the smarter side.)