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0 pointsredthrowaway13y ago0 comments

Apple's phenomenal dickery is making me seriously consider divesting myself of their products, so yes. Then again, I'm not the typical consumer. Their rectalitude certainly doesn't seem to have hurt their sales any.

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brandoncapecci13y ago· 7 in thread

There is certainly the fans that will buy anything Apple because it's Apple regardless of what Apple does. That being said, like you, I'm not sure if I can bring myself to support undoubtedly one of the most unethical companies in the world. They haven't have a big product release since the Samsung case but any sales lost were certainly more than made up for with their patent winnings.

coob13y ago

> one of the most unethical companies in the world.

Less ethical than Total? Philip Morris? Freeport-McMoRan? Halliburton? Monsanto?

Save the hyperbole. Companies sue one another.

freehunter13y ago

Less ethical doesn't mean least ethical. One of the most unethical doesn't mean the most unethical.

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philwelch13y ago

Blackwater? Chiquita? Coca-Cola? De Beers? And between the both of us we've barely gone past the ones that commit outright murder.

rimantas13y ago

  > undoubtedly one of the most unethical companies
  > in the world

Oh please. I now people are irrational, but we can be wiser as to delude ourselves that some company is ethical and other is not based on cherry-picked tidbits.

stephen_g13y ago

> I'm not sure if I can bring myself to support undoubtedly one of the most unethical companies in the world.

Really? I wish Apple was one of the most unethical companies in the world, because if suing some companies over patents was grounds for that, then the world would seriously be a much better place.

In the real world, I probably wouldn't rate Apple in the top thousand unethical companies... Real unethical companies are ones like James Hardie [1], which manufactured building materials from asbestos that gave thousands of people mesothelioma, despite knowing the health effects for about 10 years.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hardie

richworks13y ago

Being unethical or not is based on moral values and Apple did breach the moral code of conduct in their recent lawsuits by acting vigorously bullish but they did nothing wrong(at least not legally). But what James Hardie did was borderline illegal so they are two different things.

talmand13y ago

The difference I would toss out there is that what Hardie did was not unethical, it was criminal.

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