Local businesses even in San Pedro & the nice parts of DF routinely pay uniformed police officers to stand in certain places while on/off duty, that you don’t seen them loitering outside the door during business hours generally means it’s working.
Consider how opinion might be colored by the LATAM country next door as opposed to one >3000 miles away on a separate continent with a separate culture and society.
While it enjoyed outsized influence, the Mac never had enough share to create a sufficiently large software ecosystem w/o the web.
In this era (~'98-'12), the web provided a bridge over a moat formed by a competitor's proprietary stack winning through momentum and network effects. The web went "over the top" of both Macs and PCs, and while Apple desperately coveted native app builders for the Mac, was at least savvy enough to know that if it could add the universe of great web apps to the Mac experience, it would be a market-reality help at point of sale.
Many do not want Montana lawmaker influence anywhere near their child’s education standards and vice versa.