What I like about this posturing is that the big tech dogs have given up trying to fight the EU. They know that the law makers are serious about enforcing their rules, and the market/fines are too large to ignore.
They’ve moved fully over trying to circumvent the law, or get exemptions. Historically, the EU has not been kind to that either.
They refused to send a model and asked him not to review until the new software was out. So they knew. He bought one anyway.