Game consoles defend their software ecosystem because they don't have hardware margins (unlike Apple). Apple could try to use the console manufacturer defense,

Game consoles defend their software ecosystem because they don't have hardware margins (unlike Apple). Apple could try to use the console manufacturer defense, but they'd have to abandon their biggest cash cow to make it work. > nearly all printers, nearly all camcorders, and so on. I'm really starting to think nobody here read the Digital Service Act. Unless your toaster or smart-refrigerator is a gatekeeper platform with the required number of users, it doesn't matter. Apple is rightfully being called out for anticompetitive conduct, regardless of how you feel about the morality of an App Store. If App Stores are the future, we'll have to Think Different and implement them in better way. Apple has their work cut out for them, the preemptive apologism falls on deaf ears.