Sometimes I feel like people enjoy piling on because they are the big dog.
Again, please don’t mistake this comment for a blindness to some of its operations. But it’s nice to see them get credit for the good stuff.
The fact that China hasn’t improved on human rights the way everyone expected them to do over the last two decades is indeed a problem for Apple, and everyone else who does business there, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are in fact making their phones more repairable, which is beneficial to the environment and consumers in reality, and not just in appearance.
The pure fact that they aren't advertising such obvious user-benefiting feature corroborates my hypothesis that they only virtue-signal what they find milkable. Fundamentally, they are making iPhones more repairable a result of the US and the EU being on their asses with various legislation; it's a mere compliance. Advertising it would likely affect their AppleCare+ revenue, which is why I presume they simply didn't.
If they actually cared about being a better company for the sake of being a better company, they would absolutely point out that obvious benefit even at the risk of diminishing their future AppleCare+ revenue.
So, in short, those repairability improvements are mostly to comply and save their own expenses when fixing AppleCare-insured phones. Which is what I meant by it being mostly for the looks. They just know how to play their cards well.
> which is beneficial to the environment and consumers in reality, and not just in appearance.
Nobody said it wasn't, that wasn't the point I was arguing.
For a more direct example look at all the companies putting up pro-LGBT flags.
This is an ideological claim that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Obviously if you hold this as an axiom, you won’t be able to see that companies are made up of people.
Are you aware that Tim Cook is gay? Could it be that his personal experience has something to do with Apple supporting gay rights?
If your claim has any truth, then all companies above a certain size would be putting up pro-LGBT flags.
Of course it is not a requirement if only other companies are your clients, here public opinion doesn’t have direct monetary correlation.
But in any case, there is no point in further discussion with you since you have stated your ideology.
That’s why I am much more annoyed by their push to services, because there I am less convinced that our interests are convergent in the long run.
Meanwhile, millions of people accidentally turn on iCloud without understanding the consequences, due to Apple’s UI decisions.
Apple need to do way more than this to show that they really strive to be good.