I will answer your last question. Apple absolutely does not respect your freedom. They infringe on your freedom. Depending on the definition of ethical, they ar

I will answer your last question. Apple absolutely does not respect your freedom. They infringe on your freedom. Depending on the definition of ethical, they are vastly less ethical than the FSF. But they also never claimed to be ethical. They never claimed to guard a moral ideal. They have claimed many things (protect privacy of users, guarantee security of users) which they did not act upon, and they have received flack for that. But they didn't claim to be ethical. Not even in a aspirational way like Googles "Don't be evil" moto. The FSF, however, claims that ethics is it's prime driver. And by endorsing hardware with proprietary blobs (placed on chip flash instead of system storage) they display hypocrisy. They choose the very pragmatism they criticise others for choosing. And that is something religions do aswell. I have asked you why is the line there and you have not answered.