“Gruber had a good line — the last thing you want to do if you're a sports team in a high-stakes sporting event is piss off the refs. That's what Apple's doing. They're just inviting more regulation. South Korea is already threatening to fine them. They're squandering developer goodwill.”

Apple is pissing off the refs in a game it's already winning

David's read on Apple's strategic blunder. By choosing maximum hostility in DMA compliance, Apple signals to every other regulator in the world that they won't cooperate — which guarantees more aggressive future regulation in other jurisdictions and slowly erodes the developer goodwill that built the platform.