> when people are defending something perceived by others to be immoral or otherwise harmful well, i'd usually be just as surprised as the parent that people o

> when people are defending something perceived by others to be immoral or otherwise harmful well, i'd usually be just as surprised as the parent that people on this site are still getting surprised by it, and i sure as hell am not defending the company doing this. all publicly traded companies should be considered amoral by default. if they take moral action, then they dont do it because of morality. they do it either because they wish to portrait themselves as moral for publicity or they have another way to profit off of it. the thing which would surprise me is that people still dont expect that. in this particular case i'm not surprised though. hn readers are extremely positive of apple, no matter what apple does.