> Apple doesn't give a reason for the restriction
If there were real issues with GDPR or the AI Act Apple would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by mentioning at least the generalities of _why_. But they did no such thing so we can only assume it is not any of those things which are the real issues.
> Apple would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by mentioning at least the generalities of _why_
Really? You can't imagine any reasons Apple wouldn't want to have a public PR battle about its disagreements with its primary regulator in the market? Have you ever worked with the government?
Apple regularly have PR battles with governments, this week they openly sponsored a study on the App Store in Brazil to defend their ability to be the only store on iOS. Recently they fought UK publicly regarding encryption. And they have fought FBI publicly with press releases and interviews regarding similar things. Apple executives have also publicly spoken about their disagreements with DMA in 2024 and 2025.
Wow seems like they really pick these battles to only be the most important issues.
Not necessarily. Just now for example Apple is facing a regulatory problem with the eSIM, so they mention that they have an actual regulatory issue. [1]
But for this translation feature they have not even mentioned any regulatory issues, so we should from conclude, from previous and current behaviour, that Apple is delaying for something else. Probably engineering or political reasons.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/12/apple-delays-iphone-air...
Delayed approval and disagreements about the fundamental nature of what's allowed are two totally different things. Not sure why this example is relevant at all.
> disagreements about the fundamental nature of what's allowed
You have no source for this claim.