> For all the hacker new commenters, who have been commenting on this topic, for the year that the drama has been going on, and were convinced that Apple and Go

> For all the hacker new commenters, who have been commenting on this topic, for the year that the drama has been going on, and were convinced that Apple and Google were going to win this fight.... well you need to re-evaluate what made you think that. To the extent that I've seen this point on HN, it has always been in the context that there is no law in the US which prohibits what Apple or Google are doing, and hence it would be difficult for regulators to win without new laws or rules in place. I'm not American, so I can't say whether those people were right or not, but I think it would've been pretty ridiculous if anyone said there would never be laws against it.