> Apple didn't need to take any extra steps. They just had to comply, that's it. And they did comply. If you regulate something by saying "X and Y must have e

> Apple didn't need to take any extra steps. They just had to comply, that's it. And they did comply. If you regulate something by saying "X and Y must have equal capabilities", a company can comply by reducing the capabilities of X rather than increasing the capabilities of Y. And in the general case that's valid; the alternative would be punishing a company for having more capabilities in X in the first place, where a company that didn't have those capabilities to begin with wouldn't be punished for not adding them. (To be clear, I don't like in the first place that Apple didn't allow third-party apps or browsers, and I wish they'd opened that up to begin with, and that we'd never had or needed the DMA.) > Yeah, right. Bureaucratic politics respond way way slower than well funded tech companies with 7 figure lawyers on payroll. Sure. They've picked a very slow fight with the EU. But when the EU punches back, it may well do so with massive additional legislation with its own unintended consequences, and fines measured in percentages of global revenue.