CptMuesli

Because you can make more money when you abuse your market position to sell overpriced cables.

But they did not see themselves as a utility supplier. They preferred having the superior charging cable over licensing it to others. This way they protected their market share on Iphones.

They planned to something like this, but EU regulators made clear that this is an violation and would lead to consequences.

There is this great overview to find the Specs and all info about upgrading and stuff: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/

I guess one issue about engineering a well performing algorithm is that ot only works if you collect a real high amount of personal data and label it with stereotype based labels. And then you have to do the same with every content shared on the platform.
If you do this publicly, people will have problems with the labels of their posts.

Your awesome idea gets labeled as left wing utopic dream? Your rant about that new movement is conservative and populistic?
Might be true, but will offend people.

India has actually developed such an open platform: the open network for digital commerce.
https://ondc.org/learn-about-ondc/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Network_for_Digital_Commerce

So the software is there. You only need to adapt it to Europe and get people to use it.