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> It used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.

If you ever believed in that "we're going to change the world" crap then you'd probably fall for anything. It's marketing. Nobody writing that stuff ever believed a lick of it, it was manufactured from wholecloth to fool people that thought technology was apolitical.

The only difference between today's Apple and 2006's Apple is the fact that they quit virtue signalling.

That falls short of explaining Big Tech. In fact, I find the issue to be quite the opposite: greed incarnate though they may also be, those zucking us do believe in changing the world; they're billionaires, therefore they know better than us and they can, and must, guide us to utopia or protect us from dystopia, which means their means are justified, all of them, as their wealth is our wealth and their detriment is our detriment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761370

Apple only exists because of government.

Had the Clinton DOJ not attacked Microsoft they'd be long gone.

They have always been in bed with the government one way or another

That's a stretch.

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