> Ideally, the next time a laptop/desktop vendor is looking at the bloatware they are going to load onto a system, they'll do a cost-benefit analysis against the (potential) punitive damages associated with a lawsuit, and decide not to install the stuff.
Ideally they wouldn't do that cost-benefit analysis and just do the right moral thing to do.
Companies will tend to make better moral choices in a world where consumers have the time, resources (physical/practical, and reserves of willpower), and desire to dig deeply in to all of the products and brands in their lives and make economic decisions based at least in part on the business practices they find there, day after day, with practically everything that they buy, not as the occasional rare half-assed boycott campaign that gets almost no buy-in.
So, not our world. Here a poor moral compass is a competitive advantage, most of the time. Go around choosing morals over cold hard cash and pretty soon a competitor without your hang-ups will replace you.
Ideally they wouldn't do that cost-benefit analysis and just do the right moral thing to do.