‘For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products’: The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties

Apple is well known for its closed ecosystem of tech, rather than its PC gaming. The brand has long been known to make systems or products that work far better with other Apple items than anything else. This walled garden presents a user experience that ranges from blissfully simple to frustratingly complicated depending on what side of the wall you’re on. It’s gotten to the point that the European Union has released a set of rules the American company must comply with in order to play fairer with the competition.

APNews reports these rules are in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act, which came into power in 2022, though this is the first time the EU has enforced them so specifically. The DMA is in place to make sure big tech companies can’t gatekeep, or force out smaller ones with things like the unnecessary proprietaries Apple is known for.