Companies have never been “democracies”. Most companies are more like dictatorships internally (for employees) and past a certain size also externally (for customers). Everything is dictated by a small group of leaders and shareholders not chosen by either employees or customers.
If you really want to imagine them like democracies, you are voting with your wallet. Maybe you’re just in the minority.
Nobody said companies _are_ democracies ... you're reading something that is not there.
The point is that Apple thinks it can somehow bend the rules of the EU that were established democratically. As if users are better off with Apple's rules.
> bend the rules of the EU that were established democratically
EU might occasionally get some things right but saying it's rules are "established democratically" is a slight stretch. It's a sort of a third degree democracy (that parliament is mostly imitative, has no real power and is easily manipulated) with all implementation details and most decision making being done by unelected bureaucrats.
Yes it is not perfect, but a company telling us where democracy is functioning or not is not a solution and if a company suggests it, that is arrogant and dumb.
If you really want to imagine them like democracies, you are voting with your wallet. Maybe you’re just in the minority.