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In the American system, you're right. Apple is an international company though, and if enough countries insist that Apple play fair, how can they deny them? Th

In the American system, you're right. Apple is an international company though, and if enough countries insist that Apple play fair, how can they deny them? The American system led us to a situation where Apple's global presence is exploitative. If Apple wants to get increasingly petty with their compliance, global regulators are apt to get increasingly petty with their regulation. Considering how Apple shrugged off Dutch regulators, it shouldn't surprise people when EU commissions move in with bigger demands. If those demands are unreasonable, then maybe Apple can run off to another market. Nobody will stop you from framing this as a free market issue, but it's a comically small piece of the puzzle.

shadowgovt 4y ago
As long as Apple's a US company, the US law will dominate its actions because they might make less money in the world but the world won't jail them (well, can't jail anyone who really matters to the owners). If they think they can keep providing a better alternative with a heavy hand, they will, right up to regulation constraints. This leaves us with your previous observaation > If Apple won't do what's right, then we'll be forced to. And I agree. And in a (mostly) free-market system structure like the US, the solution is obvious... There's a reason I haven't used Apple as my primary compute platform for approximately 15 years.