Software is everywhere. A 5 USD gadget dies because the software is shit? Nobody cares. (The ewaste is bad still.) An 1 USD app has bugs? Meh. We have liabilit

Software is everywhere. A 5 USD gadget dies because the software is shit? Nobody cares. (The ewaste is bad still.) An 1 USD app has bugs? Meh. We have liability regulations for the actual things that use software. (And in some cases too much and in some cases too little. See healthcare, medical devices, FDA on one end, and Boeing and the MCAS fuckup on the other end.) One reason Amazon got sooo big is that they do have a consumer protection regulation. (The return everything no questions asked policy. Of course they also have a fucking big problem with scams, and they are too hostile with merchants, because they are a fucking de facto monopoly, and are not forced to work much on those problems or "metrics".)