> By manufacturer, nobody comes close to outsellling Apple by an order of magnitude, let alone several. Fine, I was wrong, a single order of magnitude between

> By manufacturer, nobody comes close to outsellling Apple by an order of magnitude, let alone several. Fine, I was wrong, a single order of magnitude between apple and everyone else, not several, I still thought apple had 2% of the market instead of 10% now. So average consumer... hell... 90% of the consumers don't buy apple. https://www.statista.com/statistics/273495/global-shipments-of-personal-computers-since-2006/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273495/global-shipments-... "2022, approximately 286 million PCs were shipped around the world" Where apple had: 26 million Mac and MacBook units were sold in 2022 > It’s immoral for anyone to create waste I'm happy you share the same view. > so perhaps supposed environmental fines should be directly proportional to damage Apple consumers have proven they don't care about money spent on products, so this would not have any effect. (doubt anyone would notice 100-200$ more on price...) Best to not have the damage in the first place and force them to come up with better products. (so in essence, force them to use the tax you proposed into designing a better product)