A spectrum is around Europe: it is not totalitarianism, but the war against Apple (although a little to totalitarianism in the digital version I look). Soping: the Digital Markets Act can impose on companies to respect safety and competition rules. So far ok. It is the reason, for example, for which it was imposed on the Apple to use charger cables with USB-C instead of lightning, and the Cupertino company has adapted. In truth, it is very convenient to have a cable that you can use on all devices, but is it right to impose it? In short, Apple is not a plastic bottle to be attached to attack the cap.
However, the speech is wider, and becomes more complicated. Apple should also open to Sideloading, that is, to the possibility of installing an app without going from the official store, as happens with Android devices. Ditto having the same functions on other products, such as earphones: AirPods have exclusive functions on an iPhone, the earphones of another brand not, they are not integrated with iOS, they cannot exploit advanced codes. Not that other earphones cannot be used, they simply do not use all the functions of the Apple airpods, designed especially for Apple.
Having said that, I have to take a historical step back. Steve Jobs, already in the 1980s, focused everything on hardware and software integration, risking a lot. On Apple computers you could not do everything that was allowed on other PCs, that is PCs. The MS-DOS, the Bill Gates operating system (who focused on the software, instead of on hardware), at some point went on 90% of the PCs, and both from the USA and the EU was prevented from integrating his default browser, Internet Explorer, because he would have hindered browsers produced by the competition (at the time he was Netscape).
Apple could fail (once he also failed, and to get up he was helped by Bill Gates himself, perhaps because of the guilt of having copied Windows from the Mac, and perhaps also because he is a loyal person), but Steve Jobs held hard: the Apple systems had to be closed systems. In the long run, successful but better successful products came out, in short, Steve was right.
The monopoly, to return to the main speech, is not a problem of those who buy an iPhone, which has 18% of the market shares in the sector. The EU makes it a matter of security, but security is the strong point of the Apple ecosystem. Those who have a Mac instead of a PC, or an iPhone compared to an Android knows it well: it doesn’t know what an antivirus is. Hackers go to the wedding with the Android or with the Windows Phone of Microsoft (if there are still those who use them), on an Apple device it is very difficult to enter.
This is precisely for the integration between hardware and software, and Apple controls on the apps developed by third parties before you can run on iOS.
But above all nobody is forced to take an iPhone: if you want to use the earphones you want, if you want to install what you want on your smartphone, you can also attack yourself to an Android. Where you will surely have an antivirus, which does not work.