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I'm sitting in the @EU_Commission #DMA compliance workshop for #Apple right now and as much as I appreciate the format, it's frustrating to see that Apple is the only party on the panel and in addition has its proxies like #CCIA and the #AppAssociation #ACT in the audience that are allowed to ask convenient questions and steer the discussion in Apple's interest.
Right, so #Apple's strategy is to basically sell every single function, even camera and microphone(!), of iPhone that people and apps can use as "we've made all of these valuable things available to developers, so now they must pay us." 
@ilumium Nicely explained. I like to think of it as a strategy where they charge users for the hardware then charge users again as a use-fee that is laundered through 3rd party developers. The control they exert over 3rd party developers is in large part used to hide the fact that Apple is ultimately charging users again to use hardware that they already paid for.
@callionica So true. I see a lot of parallels with the stupid #fairshare #internetfee idea where telcos wanted to force content providers to pay them again for a service end users had already paid them for.