<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bevekspldnw</author><text>Apple has never been big enough to deal with competition authorities. They lack the institutional expertise and mindset for their present circumstances.&lt;p&gt;They will continue to fail until the penalties are unbearable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iSnow</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t understand Apple here. This was a clear cut case of  malicious compliance, what did they expect? That they just get away with it? Of course the EU would see the provocation and will take the opportunity.&lt;p&gt;Yes, they might gain a couple years till this is settled, but they can&amp;#x27;t use the time to crush a competing app store in between, as there is currently none. I am sure I am dumb, but IMO the smart move would have been to work with the law and a couple of years down the road point out that alternative app stores never caught on (which is very likely, IMO)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU rejects Apple&apos;s changes: Company could be fined 10% of global turnover</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/app-store-proposals-rejected/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaomidi</author><text>The EU has said they’re going to fast track the enforcement of these. Apple lawyers, simply, fucked up.&lt;p&gt;They lost so much good will with developers over this, have lost any goodwill with negotiations with EU, and are now going to have to speedrun compliance.&lt;p&gt;I’ve dealt with lawyers like this before in various company situations. They are sometimes really, really stupid. Not always, but it happened often enough to be terrifying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iSnow</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t understand Apple here. This was a clear cut case of  malicious compliance, what did they expect? That they just get away with it? Of course the EU would see the provocation and will take the opportunity.&lt;p&gt;Yes, they might gain a couple years till this is settled, but they can&amp;#x27;t use the time to crush a competing app store in between, as there is currently none. I am sure I am dumb, but IMO the smart move would have been to work with the law and a couple of years down the road point out that alternative app stores never caught on (which is very likely, IMO)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU rejects Apple&apos;s changes: Company could be fined 10% of global turnover</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/app-store-proposals-rejected/</url></story>