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by thomassmith65 182 days ago
This is normal Apple behaviour going at least as far back as the noughties, if not the 1980s.

  Apple care about the American and Asian markets. They have long treated the EU as a joke whose consumer laws they can ignore.
  That is why, the past few years, Apple has behaved so petulantly and strangely in reaction to EU stipulations. They feel it's beneath them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421180