Officially device you buy on grey market was sold by Apple to end customer e.g. in Turkey. Or you just go to other country yourself and buy it there.
That leaves Apple still legally liable as long as the service they provide is still provided to EU citizens. As long as an EU version of the AppStore exists they are legally liable.
It wasn't the same excuse and Microsoft was a full-on monopoly in OS market. And it technically won the case in the end, got some sanctions, but they were pathetic.
In EU the monopoly is irrelevant because it’s not a crime to have a monopoly.
Microsoft had its trial and lost in EU because we have different legal definitions and laws targeting different effects as a monopoly isn’t illegal. And was forced to provide a browser choice.
And this one is just a political push to cripple Apple ecosystem, lobbied by Google (which is close to actual internet monopoly), without a court and trial.
Do you have a single shred of evidence for that? Especially when Google has even more legal obligations with android, playstore, Google services and chrome?
Imagine Google sh*tting on your iPhone as much as it does on MacOS, installing some shady keystone app to run at startup, that you can't disable (it will reappear), adding their stupid Google Docs apps links to your Applications whenever it wants.
Useful read:
Then don’t use chrome. As they recommend in the article, you can use opera or Vivaldi
As reality shows aggressive Chrome marketing and engineering will not leave the choice for less tech-savvy.
This isn’t a good defense to enforce a single way to render web content. Apple left the windows pc market years ago. It’s not the competitions fault that they provide a seamless user experience across windows, Mac, Linux and android. It’s not EUs problem that Apple needs to use artificial life support to maintain their user base instead of making it more desirable or available on more platforms.
You conveniently skipped the fact that Microsoft was an OS monopolist (close to full monopoly) at the time and iOS is a minority. Also Microsoft had its trial and won in the end, and this is just a political push without trial.
This isn’t a political push against Apple.
How about Apple made safari available on windows, android and made it actually competitive?