It could happen. But if Apple leaves Europe, there will be suddenly lot of developers, who will have no motivation anymore to release anything for Apple and all applications will be suddenly for Android only.<p>Do you want to use our product? Well buy some Android phone instead of your toy phone. Does not look good in a long term.
For me they can happily leave if they feel like it.<p>We would get back to the 1980 - 2000's period, where Apple hardware on Europe was mostly seen on computer magazines, while we played with Atari, Amiga, Archimedes, PC, MSX, ZX Spectrum and C64.<p>Business opportunity for Sailfish, and others.
Leaving big markets has been done quite a few times. Most obviously when Google left the Chinese search market in 2010, something that conventional wisdom at the time said could never happen due to the sheer size of the market.
Lies.. European market is the second biggest one, accounting for 25% the company's revenue in 2023.<p><a href="https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/</a>
No they can't, because this is against the shareholder value. Everything must be decided for the shareholder and in favor of the shareholder.<p>If they leave, they'll bring big damage to the shareholder. Not only tim Cook can run very very very fast, then...