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The metric seems simple. It's not just Apple that's affected by the way the media find it ver easy to whip up a storm / moral panic / or as the article says "riots"...

If the decision to allow something will get us on Fox News, don't do it.

The media and political class are only allowed two positions on anything. Completely against or completely encouraging. Drugs. Infanticide etc. If you fail to condemn or block it, you're encouraging it. If you fail to encourage it, you're blocking it. Of course, when you spend less than any other industrialised country on education, you get a populous for whom everything is black and white.