As much as I'd like to see Apple fight this, shouldn't the blame be placed on the governments for compelling this, rather than on Apple? What is the alternative, pulling out of the UK?

While I'd love this hard-line approach, as it might make other countries think twice, the stockholders probably wouldn't love it.

> Laws like the Online Safety Act 2023 apply to websites and online services — not to entire phone operating systems.

Doesn't this go back to companies like Meta lobbying to push the responsibility to the OS instead of taking it on themselves? I read they did that in the US, I can only assume they did it in the UK as well.

Frankly, I'd rather have Apple qualify me as over 18 one time, and pass a simple boolean to a site vs having to upload proof (an ID, photos...) to every website I want to use. This may be the lesser of two evils.

How would Apple possibly fight a valid law of any country it operates in?