It is a move to decouple from the USA for critical infrastructure. They don’t want to be in a similar situation as Ukraine in any potential conflict. Where the USA just says we will no longer allow you to use our computer chips for war with Russia.

Considering it is free to use, with streaming, voice/video calling , it surprises me that the enshitification didn’t start earlier.

Let’s hope Europe stars investigating Google as a gatekeeper. That seemed to work miracles on Apple.