Hurting one of its biggest companies for something that turns out to not be in the interest of the voting public after all would be kind of a big deal!
Even an ineffective regulation that neither hurts nor harms consumers but ends up hurting Apple would probably be seen very negatively.
> Is basically impossible to get things past anyway recently, even far more important things than this.
Very true, and another point in favor of inertia. The only thing that could possibly break that is seeing a similar regulation be a slam dunk in a comparable market, but even then it's a big if, I agree.
Yeah, I think the only way it is going to happen at this point is that if it proves successful in the EU then it’s quite possible we could get a law here in the US that basically says “we want that too or else“.
I just don’t see us leading (or going in parallel) due to lack of interest/will.
Even an ineffective regulation that neither hurts nor harms consumers but ends up hurting Apple would probably be seen very negatively.
> Is basically impossible to get things past anyway recently, even far more important things than this.
Very true, and another point in favor of inertia. The only thing that could possibly break that is seeing a similar regulation be a slam dunk in a comparable market, but even then it's a big if, I agree.