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It may be a problem with EU regulations. It’s hard to see how Apple could be certain they had complied with the EU DMA law, given its based on vague outcomes rather than clear requirements with extremely large penalties. The fact the EU was only willing to require the DMA regulations be met by large foreign companies doesn’t inspire confidence.

And it’s not like there is a thriving tech ecosystem of successful EU tech companies showing how it’s done. So there is a lot of ambiguity on how companies can reasonably comply without huge risk of 10% global revenue.

Apple might not want to risk 10% of their global revenue on whether EU regulators like the outcome of their compliance efforts. And there isn’t any real risk of an EU based startup competing in this space like there would be in China.

DMA is about competition not privacy. Apple has privacy concerns with complying related to 3rd party access to customer data.

Another aspect here is that even if Apple tries theirto best to comply, the EU could decide they didn’t do a good enough job and fine them 10% of global revenue. Honestly Apple just might not want to take that risk.

You have given the maintainer nothing. There is no relationship, no interaction. If you want to change open source code fork it and do as you please. No one owes you free labor.

This is complete nonsense. Windows releases are supported for 10+ years. Security bugs are patched in all releases that are impacted regardless of whether the issue exists in current branch. A developer fixing an issue has no impact on MSRC being able to reproduce the issue on released builds. The existence of security bugs does not reflect poorly on individual developers, most of whom maintain code they did not write.

Just a thought from a random stranger but you might want to consider the possibility of celiac disease. It takes a couple months for antibodies to build up so the time scale you mentioned here stood out to me. Celiac disease has huge impacts on mental clarity and energy.