Apple does "Shill Marketing" on online / social media platforms. "Someone who works for a business but pretends not to in order to seem like a reliable source

Apple does "Shill Marketing" on online / social media platforms. "Someone who works for a business but pretends not to in order to seem like a reliable source is a shill. Shill marketing is the act of using a shill to try and convince the public that a product is worth buying ... The concept of shill marketing is simple. People tend to feel more comfortable with a product or service if they know someone else who has a good experience with it. If someone who isn't associated with the company tells you how good it is, the claim will probably be more convincing than if it came from the company spokesman ... Oftentimes, multiple shills work together, reinforcing each other's story and engaging in a conversation about how great the product is. ( https://www.infobloom.com/what-is-shill-marketing.htm https://www.infobloom.com/what-is-shill-marketing.htm ). Only a locked-down system needs to be "reverse engineered". All Apple has to do to prove that the M1 isn't locked down is to either release hardware information that will help other system developers easily port Linux / xBSD or other other OSes to it. Or release drivers for other OSes (like it used to do for Intel based Macs with "Bootcamp" to run Windows).