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0 pointsakudha5y ago0 comments

Why would this blow up in their face? Have you seen the lines outside Apple stores whenever they launch a new product?

Apple customers do not care. There is a small minority of people who care (like people on this site) but I bet even they will continue to buy Apple products.

We are talking about a mind bogglingly rich company with arrogance to match. Even if this gets them bad PR, it will be forgotten in a few minutes.

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whimsicalism5y ago· 3 in thread

Not me. I feel like Apple has to actually compete with often times higher quality luxury products in 2020.

No reason for me to buy any new Apple products and after this news, I won’t.

akudhaOP5y ago

But you are in the minority. Also, what other alternatives do we have? Google, Amazon, Microsoft... all equally bad or worse. I can't think of any big tech company really standing up to authoritarian (or even democratic) governments, can you?

whimsicalism5y ago

I agree. But Google's phones are better (in my opinion), the only reason I bought an iPhone is for privacy reasons - if Apple is going to renege on that branding, then no reason not to go back to the better product.

Apple was banking on privacy marketing as a competitive edge. I think that was a good strategy. Since they appear to be worse at executing on that strategy than I thought they would be, they are losing that segment of the market.

fsflover5y ago

Not a big one at all, but https://puri.sm is trying to stand up.

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