Many American commentators have a very particular view of the EU and regulation. Usually the view is that the EU are wrong but in many ways it’s just different from regulation in the US.

This is on daringfireball:

Apple is getting away what some describe as “malicious compliance” because they’re under no popular demand from their actual customers to comply in any other way.

I don’t mean to single out Gruber; this is a common opinion. It’s true in the sense that customers are not demanding it but wrong in the sense that, well, let’s ask Steve Jobs¹: