In my previous post about Apple's new subscription plans for the App Store, I offered up three possibilities. With the move, Apple is either: brilliant, brazen, or batsh*t crazy. But reading over the comments on that post (admit it, you did ? it's okay, I do too, sometimes), you might think there was a fourth option: evil. To those who have followed tech news for any extended length of time, this is a familiar refrain. Company X changes something, therefore Company X is "evil". Over the years, this has been true of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. But no company has seen this�vitriol to the extent of Apple over the past few years. And curiously, it seems correlated to their meteoric rise in power and profitability. But if Apple is really evil ? or at the very least, if several major moves they've made over the past few years have been evil ? shouldn't the opposite be true? Shouldn't Apple be losing a ton of customers who are fed up with their cruelty and inhumane torture of developers, users, and the world in general? Makes sense, right?
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