If they give in "without a fight" by following the spirit of the law (or even the letter) they will use a lot of income.
Companies are not our friends (not our enemies either) and only form a fleeting alliance if the goal of makeing money aligns with the interest of the user.
I think they're quite aware that they won't
but that will take half a decade, and in the meantime, Apple will have made another couple of hundred billion dollars