This attitude is extraordinarily hostile towards users, and even if it wasn't including checkboxes in preferences (especially when you have things like about:config) that disable the entire functionality of the app for 99% of use cases is ridiculous.
And not just enterprise sales but GSA Schedule sales, which is even more hoops to jump through but there is a huge payoff if you become a government vendor. It's not free money or anything, they're a tough customer, but you won't go broke doing it ;)
Apple is a hardware company. Google just releases as much software as they can and sees what catches on since any additional user spending additional time being tracked is a win for them. Apple writes software to make their hardware more appealing.
Bad android sales doesn't affect Google. Bad iPhone sales would tank Apple.
I would imagine such a law would apply to cops who are representing themselves as cops. This would go a long way to establishing the police as a group of people that I, as a law abiding citizen, can trust.
Comparing the startup scene in silicon valley to fashion is actually very apt. The loss of life and pain would be devastating, but lets not think that a few billion dollars worth of hardware would be anything other than a tax write-off and some middle managers pain to deal with for the next year.
If you want to look at devastating datacenter loss, if anything happened to Northern NJ the markets would go into a tailspin.
