Even if we accept your premise, the usual method of enforcing region-based separate is very crappy on Apple's platforms. I am a fairly big proponent of Apple products in the majority of cases, but this particular case is very shitty.
Many apps are released only in a single country or a handful of countries.
Many users create an Apple ID and thus an App Store account, and purchase apps, in their home country. They they move abroad. Their country of residence is not the same as the country that their Apple ID exists in.
Apple does not offer a mechanism to move your Apple ID and App Store purchases between countries. You can move your Apple ID and lose access to your purchases, or keep your Apple ID in your (wrong) "original" country, but not both.
This burns people who move between countries. In the case of this regulation, e.g. Tinder would release an app for the Dutch market... but expats would not realistically be able to use it, hence Apple would likely still be in breach of the regulations).
In the more general case, many people are unable to access important iOS applications purely as a virtue of having moved countries. It's shitty.
Many apps are released only in a single country or a handful of countries.
Many users create an Apple ID and thus an App Store account, and purchase apps, in their home country. They they move abroad. Their country of residence is not the same as the country that their Apple ID exists in.
Apple does not offer a mechanism to move your Apple ID and App Store purchases between countries. You can move your Apple ID and lose access to your purchases, or keep your Apple ID in your (wrong) "original" country, but not both.
This burns people who move between countries. In the case of this regulation, e.g. Tinder would release an app for the Dutch market... but expats would not realistically be able to use it, hence Apple would likely still be in breach of the regulations).
In the more general case, many people are unable to access important iOS applications purely as a virtue of having moved countries. It's shitty.