Full access to NFC, bring your own browser engine, zero fees on third party stores, the changes are genuinely positive. What makes you say they feel like “retaliation”?
Yeah the Apple doc is all about iOS, not mentioning iPhone or iPad, which made it non-obvious. Especially since both products used to run iOS in the past.
Not being on iPad is not useless. It will just hurt the iPad platform, not the other way around. Nobody really cares that much about it except some niche creative products anyway.
I visited Italy last summer, enjoyed it a lot, but let me tell you the trains’ timing was a mess, perhaps the most stressful part of the trip. Never on time and in a bad way (so it eats up any connection buffer time). Well, after the car rental, but that’s another story.
Not sure what you mean, the announced changes are pretty much the best thing ever to happen to the Apple eco-system. The only bad part about them is they're restricted to EU.
That's exactly what USA are trying to do, minding their own business.
It's a law directly impacting all businesses operating in Quebec.