This was not a surprising outcome.<p>Rossman lobbied for it for years and all he got for his trouble was a year long audit with potential fines in the six figures for a 0.11% error rate according to the accounting records, and then having to shut down his business in New York because they couldn't even tell him how to comply with the laws they said he was being fined in violation for. Great sound-clip on his youtube channel of their response.<p>There's a clear reason businesses are leaving NY.<p>These corporations spend millions buying and paying for politicians lobbying them to shill and kill those bills that would directly impact their market-share in a monopolized marketplace.<p>Unfortunately, it will keep happening, and it just goes to show that there isn't true representation at the state levels for those governed areas.<p>They voted 147 for, and 2 against, and then neutered the bill by switching out the rules on the barn wall at 11th hour just like in Animal Farm.<p>In my opinion, its morally irredeemable graft, corruption and evil. They swore oaths when they entered office, which apparently mean little more than lip service compared to the lobbying they received. Its a sad state of affairs.<p>When you over regulate and arbitrarily interfere with business relations, eventually those with options leave, and the locals pay the price as prosperity dries up.<p>You would think a politician would have educated themselves enough to have read classics like the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, but we do live in an age of avarice, deceit, and hubris, where only the short term matters.<p>As for me, I would never move to, nor do business in New York knowing how the state government there operates.
> The bill also won’t require OEMs to provide “passwords, security codes or materials” to bypass security features, which is sometimes necessary to do to save a locked, but otherwise functionally fine device.<p>GOOD! The uselessness of locked iPhones is why they aren’t stolen as much. Keep this!