How?
I manage hundreds of Macs at work, and Apple is always pushing us to use VPP (Volume Purchase Program). However, most of the apps we need are not in their store at all, so there is no point. And their 'federated' accounts don't work for us due to arbitrary limitations on Apple's side (Specifically: The UPN must be equal to email). I really don't want every user creating their own account which we don't manage. It's messy for support and the latest Macs lock themselves to the user's account so we can't recover it when it's returned (Activation lock). Also, because all those accounts have to be manually cleaned up if we ever do move to federated accounts. So I've set everything up to not use Apple accounts at all.
So yes my objections have been made clear to Apple. And this is on the work side even, in my personal scope I'm even more against this.
Not sure if "here" would help in any way, as when it comes to bigcorp-versus-small-guy, HN is basically an echo chamber.
Also, I've once heard that Apple employees are discouraged from reading internet forums. That's probably why we never see them here.
Kudos for complaining to Apple directly, though.
Well, I would never let my employer dictate what I do in my spare time. I'm sure they're here!
They're probably forbidden to reveal themselves as Apple employees though. Apple is really strict on that stuff. They love their NDAs.
But I don't think it affects Apple directly discussing about it here, no. Agreed.
People gets discouraged from working with these companies, meaning they have to raise wages meaning it is easier for others to compete :-)
