You gave them money after they had been doing this for a decade. You can only blame yourself.
It‘s not like a car dealer where there are probably more than one in your small town each dealing with different brands. There you can ignore one dealer and one brand and you still have enough dealers & brands to select from. With phones you have exactly 2. And at some point you‘ll also want to eat food and not only don‘t do stuff because of reasons.
As a developer, you can’t have a successful app and not be on the Apple app store.
Anyway, even if neither of those were true, as human beings we certainly always have the right to talk shit about Apple and tell them to go fuck themselves. Even while we’re using their products.
I make sure to cost Apple money by convincing entire companies to not use their stuff. And any Apple products that my family buys aren’t new. We also never buy apps from their app store.
'"Voting with your wallet" isn't voting for change; it's giving up.'
I love the subtext I'm reading that boycotting companies that are doing bad things is for dirty quitters who lack grit.
This brings to mind a Musashi quote, from the book of five rings.
“You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.”