Re: something the government did that is so crazy
yeah, sure, but the thing is--the government really doesn't favor companies. In fact that's the problem. The government doesn't go "you're a small company, here's a pass". it's the same for everyone. So all the big companies that have money can use these systems because they have money, and all the small companies can't because they don't. In this case both companies seem large enough that that difference probably doesn't matter, but if you actually want this to be better, the irony is that the government would actually have to explicitly favor companies. Or abolish most of our IP law, whichever, but favoring companies is honestly much more likely to happen as a fix.
I don't know where you got the idea that the government is going "Yay, Apple, our friend", but wherever it's from, they left you with some odd ideas about how shipping goods across international borders works. Even personal mail to a friend just sometimes doesn't get there when you do that, it's not like domestic shipping, everything can and will get opened at random, and if there's even the tiniest chance that it's not legal they err on the side of "haha sorry, it'll take you 2 months to get this back". In so far as apple can do something, it's that they have the resources to file all the right paperwork with all the right people, but frankly, if I knew a shipment was coming into the U.S. from somewhere and I had enough information I could block it if I didn't mind breaking the law, just by claiming it contains drugs or something. It's really not hard to get a shipment seized. There's a reason that when you order from Canada, shipping goes from $10 to $50 or more, and it's not that the cars have to travel further.
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