Clasping at straws? See nothing but upsides to dropping AirDrop for all the other benefits.

So Apple spends money on R&D to develop these various things for their users as a competitive advantage, the quality of their software and the ecosystem is what Apple has been selling, even when they were small. People liking their taste and direction is what caused them to grow. The EU now wants them to give that all away to their competitors, who already copied a large part of their biggest product and now have more marketshare globally?

I love open platforms as much as the next guy, but that's not Apple's business model. They make hardware and software as a package to sell hardware. Giving all their software away to run on anything destroys the entire business model.

Does the EU want Apple to turn into yet another company funded by ads? Where does this lead? Take away their hardware business and that forces them to push services even harder, and to have more user hostile practices, to try and milk people for more money. I'm all for pushing Apple on things like repairability, as I think lacking this puts them at odds with their greenwashing about the environment, but Apple has always been about a walled garden ecosystem, that is literally why people are buying the products. They want to be in that garden.

To remove advertised features the customer has already paid for is excellent basis for a class action.