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Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter[1]:

> Absolutely vile. This says everything about @tim_cook’s Apple and what it thinks of developers. I hope the company gets exactly what it deserves. Everybody on their executive team should be ashamed, and some of them should not be here when it’s all over. We all see you.

> We’ve been told that if Apple ever asked its employees to betray their principles, they’d leave. In a similar vein, everybody, top to bottom, involved in planning, editing, implementation of everything in this document should leave Apple. You betrayed us.

1: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/14895589519056691...

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Pretty strong word, betrayal.

Someone on 9to5 Mac suggested Steve to put his money where his mouth is, i.e. pull his own software from App Store, before demanding from Apple employees that they leave the company. I think that's a good advice.

If the only chance for him to make a change is by completely boycotting the system, is there not a possibility that the system isn't that good in the first place? Are you insinuating that the Blizzard employees who were routinely abused should have just left the company and forfeit their source of income instead of trying to inspire internal change?

No, I'm not insinuating. I think I was clear enough: if you want others to bear financial responsibility for you cause, lead by example. Otherwise you do what any other hypocrite does: shaming people for something you yourself is guilty of.

Do a Neil Young thing, Steve. Pull your catalogue.

Because we all know how well Neil Young's boycott turned out!

So he should destroy his business? Seems like extremely terrible advice.

But he's okay suggesting others destroy their own livelihood?

Their second tweet doesn't make sense. How does his feeling of betrayal mean that the employees betrayed their principles and should therefore leave?

That's a projection of his own belief in the way it should work onto the beliefs of thousands of employees who may not share his thoughts on the matter.

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