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Apple has done more to destroy the core principles of electronic freedom than any other company on Earth.

Apple forces independent developers to pay them just to distribute software on Apple devices, devices their owners already paid highest-in-class for. Apple prevents users from being able to install software on their devices without Apple's approval, and intentionally attempts to thwart third-party "jailbreaking" software. Apple exercises arbitrary and capricious censorial control over what software developers can distribute even when they do attempt to comply with all of Apple's vague policies. Apple produces hardware that is intentionally difficult to repair and maintain, and attempts to monopolize the provisioning of services.

As if all of these offenses weren't enough, Apple was also often the first major vendor to adopt and normalize them.

Many of the ideas that make modern computing so terrible became dominant because of Apple. Moreso than any other company, Apple trained a generation of users to think that their computers weren't really theirs, and that the person who decides what a computer is allowed to do is the vendor that designed the hardware. This is a horrible thing to teach human beings about computing. It is arrogant, antidemocratic, and hegemonic.

I would quit programming before I would ever consider working for Apple. If you care about the future of computing, and what it means for society, you should too.