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At the very least, I know Apple (as a company made up of people) is not universally supportive of action like this (at face-value: assuming Prepear isn't hiding
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
At the very least, I know Apple (as a company made up of people) is not universally supportive of action like this (at face-value: assuming Prepear isn't hiding anything from us) - nor the whole App Store tax situation - and many other controversies Apple gets embroiled into: I've got many software-eng friends at Apple who share their personal opinions with me with fair criticism of the company all the time. Apple practically bans their FTEs from identifying as Apple employees on social-media (all the Apple FTE SEs I know all have private Twitter accounts - and they never talk about their work online) so obviously you won't see anyone Retweeting AAPL SWEs voicing their support of Prepear (or Epic Games...). I know their social-media policy stems from their culture of secrecy, but it also has the effect of making it seem like everyone toes the company-line.
- coeneedell 6y agoThis is partially what I'm concerned about. From the basic facts that I've seen about this case I believe that Apple is in the wrong. That being said, seeing prepear resort to dehumanizing tactics in trying to rally the public beside them is disconcerting. I think there's an "every foot counts" mentality in activism these days that's not just destructive to the state of discourse, but is actually counterproductive as well.