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are people really surprised the world biggest corporation has to cave to the worlds second largest economy? What do people expect really? Do people even underst
by jdmoreira 4y ago
are people really surprised the world biggest corporation has to cave to the worlds second largest economy? What do people expect really? Do people even understand the kind of incentives at play here?
What does this have to do with the quality of their products?
Apple is an artificial entity, a corporation and it's only loyalty by design is with the wallets of it's shareholders.
What's surprising about this?
- lemondice 4y agoIn actual practice corporations are only loyal to the board of directors and the officers. Shareholders are just the suckers used to jack up the share price.
- jdmoreira 4y agoYou are right of course. But by definition of the law / "algorithm", it should be all shareholders
- cageface 4y agoThe difference is Apple insists on removing most of the user's control over their device, which makes it an ideal target for authoritarian regimes. Android gives you more control and more options.
- rurp 4y agoWell for one thing, many people seem to believe Tim Cook and other individuals at Apple when they say things like "We believe privacy is a human right". It's worthwhile to point out some of the examples of their actions being contrary to their words.
- jdmoreira 4y agoThose people are naive and have never heard of PR and "spin"