The European Union wants Google to allow any AI company to use its services, and the company hates the idea. Apple agrees with Google.
Apple doesn't seem to be listened to by the European Union when it complains about its own experiences trying to work within the Digital Markets Act (DMA). But since the EU has asked for responses to its proposals for Google to open up to rival AI firms, Apple has tried again.
"The DMs [draft measures] raise urgent and serious concerns," said Apple in a submission to the EU, as seen by Reuters.
For instance, Apple is expressly concerned about the idea that any AI firm could in theory send emails or order food via Android, without Google's or perhaps the user's knowledge.
"If confirmed, they would create profound risks for user privacy, security, and safety as well as device integrity and performance," continued Apple.
Apple doubtlessly has its own platforms in mind when it is now objecting to rival firms having full access to Android. But it also makes the point that the EU has specified AI firms in its proposals, and Apple points out how poor and error-strewn AI apps are.
"These risks are especially acute in the context of rapidly evolving AI systems whose capabilities, behaviours, and threat vectors remain unpredictable," said Apple, "as we are now seeing time and again."
Anyone can submit their opinion to the EU when there is an open call like this, and everyone who does is really looking to protect their own interests. So Apple is clearly concerned that it, too, may be forced to allow the same rival access in iOS.
However, Apple does also have the experience of what it has previously claimed to be "hundreds of thousands of engineering hours" in complying with the DMA. And as part of its new submission, questioned the EU's technological expertise.
"The EC is redesigning an OS... it is substituting judgments made by Google's engineers for its own judgment based on less than three months of work," said Apple. "It is all the more dangerous given the only value that can be discerned from the [draft measures] guiding this work appears to be open and unfettered access."
Separately, in May 2026, the EU concluded that its DMA has made a positive impact, thereby ignoring Apple's lobbying for it to be revised.
What happens next
It's not clear when Apple submitted its filing to the EU, but it was during the consultation period that ran from April 27, 2026, to May 13, 2026.
The European Commission states that it will "carefully assess" submissions from both Google and what it calls interested parties. It does say that there may be adjustments made to the proposed measures because of the submissions.
However, it also mandates that its final decision "must be adopted within six months" of the opening of the specification proceedings. In this case, that means July 27, 2026.