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Quite an authoritarian take.


The unelected 'authority' being Apple, of course.

Apple's choice was apparently to die as a hammer-wielding hero or live long enough to become the patriarch on the telescreen.


Both sides are authoritarian. One is a private company with more money than most countries, one is an economic union nominally representing the people of many countries.

I don't know where I fall on this issue personally, but siding with Apple is probably more authoritarian.


People defend Apple like its the underdog. Apple has been Goliath for almost a decade. Apple under Tim Cook is more about making money than it is about making the best product.


Yep and i think the market is saturated, but they still need the number to go up for the big shareholders. I mean they have a gross profit of 150 billion, it's not like this is helping the workers making apple's products and services.


I'm old enough to remember when they were the underdog.

I still find it weird that people spent the last 5 years complaining about practices that started when they still were an underdog, and which were applauded at the time, and which don't even fully apply now to all developers anyway.

But you're right, they're not underdogs any more.


It's two private companies, in this case one is using their local government to try to force the other to change, in order to make more money.


People think Apple is a struggling company still making iPod and PowerMacs to stay afloat.


Oh, authoritarian EU. What is it, 2016 again?




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