I am going to assume that this is not just a troll so I will take the time to answer your question. > technologically aware people know what Apple are doing Y

I am going to assume that this is not just a troll so I will take the time to answer your question. > technologically aware people know what Apple are doing Yes, I do. I have over 30 years designing chips and computing systems (not an Apple employee). The Apple Silicon Macbook Pro I am typing on has great performance and I never think about battery life any more and I never hear a fan. I've owned a lot of laptops and nothing has ever come close in build quality, design, and performance/watt. Apple has over 2 billion active devices in service. Two possibilities: We are all suffering some massive delusion, or your criteria for evaluating quality and engineering need to be adjusted. Please name another large company that cares more about privacy, freedom, education, empowering people, the environment, diversity, etc. than Apple. They are from perfect, but they keep investing in the quest to do better. What specific ethics issues are you so concerned about? Please answer a question for me. How come so few people who are into open source operating systems seem to be unable to understand that the vast majority of the world doesn't want to deal with all of that stuff? I think it is great that some folks enjoy the configuring, tweaking, writing their own services, setting up their shells, arguing about vi vs emacs, etc. That's really cool and I am happy that is available for those users. However, don't condemn me if I have other priorities. It is super simple. Apple makes products. If people like the products they will buy them. If people can't do what they need to do with the product and don't enjoy using it, they won't buy it again. If you are right, Apple will soon die and your problem will be solved. If you are wrong, their unprecedented growth will continue.