> Is it? Apple is the most profitable company and by most metric a well performing company and they never shied away from alienating their users(by things like

> Is it? Apple is the most profitable company and by most metric a well performing company and they never shied away from alienating their users(by things like removing 32 bits, headphone jack, iphone mini etc). Apple has intentionally raised it's userbase inside of a walled garden from the start of the second Jobs era. The Apple experience is to be told what is good and why. Yes they are very effective at this but I see no point of comparison with how Reddit has evolved - or failed to - over the last decade or so. >Google is the same where they killed many services used by millions Google are as bad as Reddit, if not worse, for the same reasons that I gave. They are an ad company with a slew of vanity projects that wouldn't exist without ads, or only exist to deliver more ads or provide data for more accurate targeting of ads.