Companies don’t make laws (unless you live somewhere like the US); people do. If the people say “stop fucking around and rent-seeking” then companies should have to do that. It’s pretty simple, really. Just because you build your own hardware and software doesn’t give you the right to do whatever you want.

Apple is free to leave the European market if it doesn’t like the rules.

True. Perhaps it should.

I bet the Robber Barons said something like “Don’t like it? Build your own railway!” too.

A computer and phone company, in a sea of computer and phone companies, is not equivalent to a rail company.