Apple products are also valuable because they build in user-centric dark-pattern limiters that HN hates but consumers happily value and pay for. These threads

Apple products are also valuable because they build in user-centric dark-pattern limiters that HN hates but consumers happily value and pay for. These threads keep saying the profits are sales and marketing as if artificial. On the contrary, user-centricity even to point of dev-hostility is a specific product market fit tradeoff Apple pursues, giving the whole brand a halo effect and premium. Devs need to roll with that or will continually find themselves misaligned.