I remember having this argument 20 years ago with a bunch of people talking about the great graphics of some games. My response was always “yeah but the gameplay isn’t good.”

I’ll take a pretty game, sure. But I’ll take 2600-level graphics and good gameplay over a lot of the AAA garbage we’re being fed these days.

And if Apple is preventing other competing proprietary systems from working on their platform, do you agree that they should allow those systems to work on their platform?

Apple’s versions aren’t really any better than competing systems (some of which are open) in my experience. They’re just better than the other systems they allow to operate on their devices, which is a way of using their large market share to prevent competition. Apple have used “but muh security!” as a response to letting competing services onto iOS, so the EU are giving them the other option - open up your own standard so others can use it.

That’s avoiding the question. It also ignores the fact that there are already multiple competing implementations that are also better than standard Bluetooth file sharing, but that Apple’s walled Garden prevents several of them from being usable on Apple’s devices, so if you’re taking that approach then you’re trading off one method of Apple being anticompetitive for another.

If the fuel for your car were specifically tied to the manufacturer, would that increase or decrease competition?

You too, huh?

That’s unfair to brain worms.