Actually the parameters of the default is well defined in the DMA. Users can then decide what are their preferred options. It's no different than say macOS.
Are you now rewriting the DMA? I think you are making excuses as you go along.
There is nothing monopolistic about the DMA. Quite the contrary, the objective is to keep the market as open and liberal as possible away from new steering tactics made possible through new technological advancements. It is applied to all companies, domestic or foreign.
In fact I find it interesting that in all your rhetoric around monopolistic favoritism you seam convinced the main Apple competitors in the EU are from the EU. Well, they aren't. There goes your monopolistic theory out of the Window. Instead, exposes quite the contrary.
There is no current option for hundreds of millions of users on the EU open internet when it comes to buying, selling, distributing and accessing third party Apps on their smartphone. Case in case iOS users. For these there is only one way, one policy, one retailer on their smartphone. A retailer that in turn is also an apps and digital services competitor against users for users.
So it's not killing any option. It's instead requiring the above to be an option across all Gatekeepers platforms instead of a fatality when users buy a their favorite smartphone.
According to which law? Obviously you failed basic law classes.
Where is it hurting end users? Is macOS built hurt users? Hallucinated rhetoric.
Your closed system is systematically being broken and patched every year in case you did not noticed. Fresh this month: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/n...es-security-vulnerabilities-in-ios-and-ipados
Now, I understand that you consider a security breach, a hack as you put it, giving users the final decision on how to access, buy, sell and distribute their digital services and Apps on their own core personal computers and smartphones regardless of platform. It is funny because, I find that Apple shareholders are usually the ones with such as far-right views for the future. I would say it not even intentional, is just their instinct to protect their holy caw as much as possible.
Your rhetoric is snake oil. Why? Well several times in this interaction you were caught in incongruent reasoning schemes. Presenting false dilemmas as an argumentation tactic to convince people. Using alternative ontologies and orthographies for well know concepts. If you were true to the nature of things, that wouldn't be the case at all.
You go to the point of using old ladies and technology illeterates as an excuse to constrain basic human liberties in favor of a private company while playing with human insecurities. I find this behavior intellectually despicable.
Stop, man, Just stop. It's just a phone. It is a very important component of an open communication infrastructure, it has grown with it. The rest is just busine$$$. The security part needs to be sorted both technically, making software easier to operate and educating users. It's definitely not by taking the ability for people to decide for themselves as the default modus operandi on such important matters as described above. Which in the end, if Apple iOS modus had its way into the open EU communication infrastructure and the Internet has whole, this practice would spread to the point that in 20 years no individual or organization would be able to sell or access a thing without authorization from these and others Gatekeepers that would for sure claim for the same rights at scale.
The DMA is here to stay. There is nothing illegal about it. In fact, is part of the EU law.
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