Apple is not a particularly great company.
It's a trillion-dollar giant that sits on gazillions of actual cash yet still runs sweatshops to produce its products. It's a corporate bully and throws around its immense power and finances to pressure the government, lawmakers, and industries to keep conditions favorable. It rips off app developers, robbing them of 30% of their earnings to have a space in its app store monopoly. It has done all in its power to try and kill Android and to make the divide between both sets of devices as friction-full as possible. It makes it tedious to repair its products, in favor of you throwing your perfectly good device in the landfill to get the shiny new one. It has long since lost the innovation that made the company great in favor of numbers and shareholder value. And Steve Jobs, the man who kickstarted it all, while a genius, was an asshole to most of his employees.
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