> There is no defending Apple here. These decisions are made by multiple people who should all be in prison.
Bingo.
There's this curious willingness from the HN community to jump in and defend the whole of a corporation when a single part makes a mistake. We've seen them come out in droves when rational people criticize the App Store, the Butterfly keyboard, inhumane working environments or unsafe centralized services. It's absolutely bizarre that these same apologists feel the need to justify genuine bureaucratic failure. They really want to champion Apple on the basis that they violate zoning laws and endanger their neighbors?
Sometimes this site needs to grow a pair and accept that their favorite business has to follow the law. I know it's a lot to ask from latte addicts that work in management, but I'm done accepting justifications for Apple's behavior that end without blame.
As an owner of Apple hardware, it is my basic duty to hold them accountable. Yet many of the people who rush to defend Apple somehow think it's hypocritical to be a customer of them while simultaneously criticizing them. And there is so, so much to criticize.
Bingo.
There's this curious willingness from the HN community to jump in and defend the whole of a corporation when a single part makes a mistake. We've seen them come out in droves when rational people criticize the App Store, the Butterfly keyboard, inhumane working environments or unsafe centralized services. It's absolutely bizarre that these same apologists feel the need to justify genuine bureaucratic failure. They really want to champion Apple on the basis that they violate zoning laws and endanger their neighbors?
Sometimes this site needs to grow a pair and accept that their favorite business has to follow the law. I know it's a lot to ask from latte addicts that work in management, but I'm done accepting justifications for Apple's behavior that end without blame.