For obvious reasons, the US government and justice system is probably not interested in being the beta tester for such a regulation – they have relatively little to gain and much to lose. Even "green bubbles" seem to be a much bigger point of contention in US public discourse than sideloading/the 30% tax.
But if the DMA it ends up working well well and consumers like it, and app store customers manage to sell that fact to the US voting population, the wind could change for Apple too.
I don’t think that really matters at all. No one (in the legislative branches) cares enough to pass something about this. Is basically impossible to get things past anyway recently, even far more important things than this.
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.
For obvious reasons, the US government and justice system is probably not interested in being the beta tester for such a regulation – they have relatively little to gain and much to lose. Even "green bubbles" seem to be a much bigger point of contention in US public discourse than sideloading/the 30% tax.
But if the DMA it ends up working well well and consumers like it, and app store customers manage to sell that fact to the US voting population, the wind could change for Apple too.