Imagine if Microsoft banned users from installing the software they want on Windows.
Imagine if Microsoft required all software developers to give them 30% of their earning or Microsoft will permanently ban them from Windows
Fuck the stupid morons who defend Apple. You are morons. The people who run Apple have Yachts and Private Islands. They do not give a shit about you.
Well, half a billion is still a lot of money so it’s great that the union got it so they can spend it on something useful. Half a billion USD is the entire yearly revenue of some fairly large companies in Sweden.
And the fine is not intended to bankrupt Apple, it’s intended to punish them and as a show of force. If Apple still refuses to comply or even pay the fine, the fines would obviously escalate and the max fine on this offence is very very high.
Also remember that the EU generally only cares what they do inside the EU, they care about how it affects EU citizens. So it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to issue brutally high fines based on yearly global revenue yet.