Companies aren't people, and people will always be more important than an abstraction. So let's reduce the abstraction here a bit.

80,000 Apple employees.

~330,171,224 residents of the United States of America.

      330,171,224
     -     80,000
     ------------
      330,091,224

Would you say that 330,091,224 is more than 80,000?

I would.

And really, optimizing for the rights of the consumer helps everyone, including all Apple employees. And this helps the producer, too, because it allows them to ignore software patents as well.

Software patents weren't for the good of anyone but executives and legislators when legislators first forced them on everyone against the protests of software devs everywhere decades ago, they aren't suddenly for the good of the common man, now, either.