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This is one of the funniest headlines I've seen in a while RE: “ahead of regulatory deadline”, because deadline is the new year.

Citation: https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/240612EN3.pdf (June 2024)

“Effective date — The Act shall come into force on the date to be set forth by a Cabinet order within one and a half years after the date of the promulgation of this Act”

Only Incredible Amazing Awesome Apple could manage to ship this change in a year and a half and totally weren't waiting for the last possible moment.

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> This is one of the funniest headlines I've seen in a while RE: “ahead of regulatory deadline”, because deadline is the new year.

So you are saying that headline is funny because it is correct?

No, it's funny because of the way they feel the need to glaze Apple over doing something Apple are required to do. Very transparent way to avoid writing a headline that is entirely negative about the company these people base their identity around. It really doesn't bear mentioning at all that they will beat the deadline by, like, a week at most.

If anything it should be mentioned in the opposite way, calling out that Apple took as long as possible as an obvious way to spite the requirement, with the week-or-so wiggle room being a buffer in case of a disastrously bad release that might need to be recalled for some reason.

I read the headline that way. As in Apple is doing it because there's a deadline ahead.

You went with a cynical view of the situation and that view got you upset. That's interesting.