You can tell the tech press is cooked because 95% of them can't connect the dots. Apple's playbook is the same one Big Oil & Big Tobacco use: delay == winning. The steps: - try corruption (a.k.a. "lobbying", usually works) - plant fake "think tanks" (ACT, etc.) - set up false comparisons - perform petulance when laws pass - market "compliance" (but do not comply) - appeal to public, claim law hurts kittens ("jobs", "privacy", "american pie"), blame regulatorshttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-apple-asks-eu-to-scrap-landmark-digital-competition-law