EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)
I can&#x27;t quite wrap my head around why people think that it is a good thing for Apple to be regulated into &quot;opening up&quot; (i.e. as opposed to being a &quot;walled garden&quot; platform).<p>If I were an entrepreneur, and say that I wanted to fork a Unix-like OS so that I could make a cross-device OS for consumer hardware that I, too, make---shouldn&#x27;t I have the right to program my OS to seamlessly integrate only with the apps and the hardware that I want it to seamlessly integrate with (i.e., mine), because my suite of apps and hardware is exactly the kind of platform that I want to offer? Isn&#x27;t it regulatory overreach when lawmakers are dictating how an OS should be designed and how a company should differentiate its product from the rest of the market?