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  • That and deliberately spiking old products with 'updates' that make them unusable...not so much designed obsolescence as sabotaging them to precipitate upgrades and get their profits up.

  • My 2013 MBP is still smashing it.

    They do need to update stuff to keep it secure and support whatever apps and the web are demanding. But yeah annoying. That said I can still run Euro Sport Player on our Mark 2 iPad.

    I see Apple - probably wrongly - as the most benign of the behemoths. They charge a fair whack but they don't snoop on your stuff. I think. Hmmmm.

  • Apple is primarily a hardware company and doesn't have the scope to be as malign as Google. Their attempt at cloud applications/services has been woeful; they'd probably like to be as evil as Google but don't yet have the chops.

    There's a significant number of people who hate iTunes.

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