Of course, Apple is technically infringing here and not stealing and I'm using a metaphor. Regarding the moral inconsistency, if we're talking about legitimate

Of course, Apple is technically infringing here and not stealing and I'm using a metaphor. Regarding the moral inconsistency, if we're talking about legitimately held intellectual property, I have a different attitude depending on if the powerful is taking from the disadvantaged, or the disadvantaged is taking from the powerful. My attitude towards Apple's industrial espionage of IBM back in the day is different than my attitude towards their industrial espionage of Masimo here. To bring up other contemporary examples, I support sci-hub and still consider XQC to be deplorable for infringing on the IP of poorer creators without due compensation. I tend to call the powerless infringers, and the powerful thieves.