Yeah I just have a hard time feeling sympathetic for Apple. They played the game pathologically and these are the consequences. If they wanted sympathy they should have tried to get along with everyone else.
I don't have sympathy for them. I just happen to agree that it's a lot of engineering work to comply now.
Perhaps if they had opened parts of their infrastructure much earlier, they wouldn't be legally compelled to do it now, and have to invest significant resources to do so.