> When China turned on Google's users, Google left the country. When the European Union ordered Apple to open up to third party app stores, Apple threatened to

> When China turned on Google's users, Google left the country. When the European Union ordered Apple to open up to third party app stores, Apple threatened to leave Europe[.] But when Pam Bondi ordered Apple and Google to help her round up their own customers, Brin and Cook didn't even ask for a court order. > You could not ask for a better example of the failure of feudal security. Nor could you ask for a better rebuttal to the "Surveillance Capitalism" claim that Google is a "rogue capitalist" (because it spies on you for profit) while Apple is a good capitalist (because they extract money, not private data): Hear-hear! As always, in many ways this isn't a "bad actor" problem (or at least, not just that) but rather a legal problem of monopolies and individuals not being able to really own what they bought.