1) 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.

2) In all area of its business (marketing, advertising, hardware design, software design, sales, support), Apple strive to minimise country-specific differences.

That is why, when it finally dawns on Apple c-suite execs that they're, in fact, not more powerful than the EU, they will roll out the improvements mandated by the EU to all geos.

So American consumers should be grateful to the EU. The American government isn't going put their needs before Apple's any time soon.