And now we wait for apple to capitulate and sell anyway.

I'm sure they will say no to European cash. Definitely. They're just principled like that.

Uh huh, they sure don’t care about an economy comparable to that of the US.

The EU doesn't need to be a technology-taker – it can be a technology maker. The Apple/Google duopoly may have sewn up the mobile market with illegal monopoly tactics, but that doesn't mean that the EU will never spawn another Nokia or Ericsson. The shortest, most efficient, most reliable path to reestablishing technological sovereignty for the EU's half-billion residents and 27 member-states is to allow domestic firms to take over the relationship between the Trump-controlled American tech giants and the Europeans who rely on their technology.

We don't typically have our highways owned and operated by for-profit megacorporations. It should be the same with operating systems. It's the base layer on which all the applications rely. That's too much control placed in private hands.

And nothing of value would be lost.

Ooo Nokia should rise from the grave and build interesting phones again!

Call their bluff, EU.

bye

and nothing of value would be lost

Oh no!! What will people use for a mobile phone then????

“Who do you think you are, the Chinese Communist Party?”

I don't live there but that would be so good for the world

As an EU citizen and non-Apple user, I'd love to see that, but I'm afraid it just won't happen 😓