Always one guy who shouts about control and submission. Don't like it don't buy it?
"I like my polluting car, if you don't, don't buy one"
"I like my t-shirt that has been manufactured with slave labour, if you don't, don't buy one"
Can we stop with this naive "Let me buy one, if you don't like it don't buy it" ?
This puts your immediate personal comfort over the common future of computing, technology, freedom, privacy, economy and more.
Someone polluting the air impacts your life, someone choosing a different computer does not.
Is someone in a third world country building goods for first world consumers “slave labor” or improving their standard of living by “pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps”. Methinks an accurate discussion is far more nuanced than you really want to have.
More importantly, Apple is a huge player that shapes the structure of the industry towards a vision that lacks any kind of freedom for its users. An end game where its users are just consumers, void of any freedom to do what they want with their hardware. This is not a bright future Apple is painting: Some sort of Utopia that we can take part of by giving up freedom, by accepting Apple's rules 100% or leaving their territory.
I can understand that what Apple does appeals to many users. I still recommend Apple devices to my retired parents and to friends who do not want to fiddle with their hardware. But that folks here on HN are defending Apple's practices is way beyond me.
If you don't like slavery, just don't buy slaves. Nothing wrong with that, right? YoU hAvE oPtIonS aS a CoNsuMer.
It still is.
Go research Apple's relationship with Foxconn.
I’ve never seen anyone wait in massive lines for days just for the chance at slavery.