Apple slow-boiled its "power users" and the dev community. If everything that has happened since SJ passed away had happened within only one or two years, fewe

Apple slow-boiled its "power users" and the dev community. If everything that has happened since SJ passed away had happened within only one or two years, fewer people would defend them. At this point, if you're younger than 20 years old, you just figure Apple built its good reputation despite all the problems. So these days when Apple does something unpleasant, you get all the arguments that start off "well, Apple has always [had some recent flaw]" or "well, Apple has never [had some old positive attribute]" Apple's reputation has indeed still suffered lately, but many older users are silently giving up, and many newer users don't know any better. I think financially, they're fairly free to do what they want now without massive consumer backlash.