Subject: Re: I must need to drink more Kool-aid
The article specifically mentions AirDrop tech.

Right. It mentions it. But it doesn't say that Apple has to transfer ownership of that tech to anyone. It just says that they have to "open up" that tech so that third party app and peripheral designers can create products that are interoperable with it. Which is something that they can legitimately require of Apple as a requirement of selling their products in the EU. And it's not a tax.