I think the one place where the author is mistaken is in the incentives for these big tech companies. I think they fully understand what the EU is about. If Ap

I think the one place where the author is mistaken is in the incentives for these big tech companies. I think they fully understand what the EU is about. If Apple can delay for a month or a year on giving the EU what they want it’s very unlikely that any fine is going to be a net negative for them. One more month of the App Store pulling in its Monopoly money is a huge amount of revenue for Apple. One more month of Facebook collecting private data is another month of higher profits. The EU cellular companies benefitted from the removal of roaming charges but Apple won’t benefit from being forced to allow alternate app stores. Corporations in Europe may benefit from their single market regulations but not many corporations in the EU are the size of Apple or Google and have the same profit incentives. (I also think that equating Elon Musk’s bad management to companies like Apple and Google that have generally good management is something of a false equivalency)