You're getting downvotes because your criticism is off-base and completely unrelated to the point at hand. If you don't want to buy Apple products, don't buy th

You're getting downvotes because your criticism is off-base and completely unrelated to the point at hand. If you don't want to buy Apple products, don't buy them. That doesn't make them anti-consumer. If you don't want to spend the money to develop on the platforms, don't do it. Needing to own a part of the platform in order to develop for it is not anti-developer. For most people that like Apple, both developer and consumer alike, there are pros that vastly outweigh any negatives. Developers, for example, make hundreds of times more income via Apple's platforms than they do off Android. The investment in the hardware is part of that. It's an investment. For consumers, it's an investment in a product that they feel is better for them. Your criticisms are nothing more than opinions. They don't really belong here.