> I wonder if any of the big companies will pull out of the EU over DMA or future legislation.
I've said this here before - no chance. Shareholders would be taking them to the cleaners. Europe is responsible for >20% of Apple's revenue. Look at how many companies are willing to kill people for a few % extra, let alone as much as 20%. I don't think there's any where the EU counts for <10%, maybe X if you still count that as a big one.
In Apple’s earnings reports, “Europe” also includes… non EU European states, many of which are/were high income nations (UK, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, etc) as well as the entire middle-east. This is apple’s own explanations.
The European Union itself is certainly closer to 10% than >20%. Their CFO said that EU accounted for 7% of the App Store, but hasn’t explicitly mentioned global revenue percent.
If Apple wanted to leave the European Union, their boat left months ago when they were forced to pay their back taxes in Ireland. Now that they're paid up on their dues, it would probably cost Apple more money than it's worth to leave the European economic zone.
I've said this here before - no chance. Shareholders would be taking them to the cleaners. Europe is responsible for >20% of Apple's revenue. Look at how many companies are willing to kill people for a few % extra, let alone as much as 20%. I don't think there's any where the EU counts for <10%, maybe X if you still count that as a big one.