[ergocoder]

And the answer should be self-served, ideally, with an automated authoritative self-served approval. It could have a lag time of a few days or even a week for a person to approve.

Apple App Store review is a nightmare but still better than these regulations. They say yes or no clearly.

These EU regulations are more like: if you fuck up, you wouldn't know until the sentence might be really really high.

[oblio]

I keep hearing that, but do we actually have stories about small European companies being ruined?

[zelphirkalt]

I bet we don't, unless they ruined themselves due to being very negligent or unwilling to implement even after being reported and found out.

The reason is that in the EU fines are usually wrist slaps, compared to the size of the company, not threatening existence. We see this with big tech, who consider violating the law cost of business.