Apple’s release announcement of the AirPods Pro 3 brings bad news for European consumers. While users in the rest of the world will benefit from AI integration that will allow the live translation of incoming audio, in real time, this feature won’t work in the EU, at least not at launch. The DMA makes any product integration particularly difficult for Apple and other designated Gatekeepers, because it requires that anything they build for themselves (even integrated), is also made available to rival services. This makes it harder to release integrated services in Europe because of the technical hurdles of engineering them to be open instead of integrated. This has led to Europeans missing out on new apps and services, as detailed in our Report.