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> Apple is probably the best corporate citizen of any company its relative size in history.

Ahem ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

They have better PR, arguably better products, and a more likeable CEO than other tech hyper-corporations. But they are fundamentally no different than any other self-aware pile of cash.

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"Self-aware pile of cash" is actually quite an intriguing descriptor for corporations. Piles of cash with personhood rights.

It is an inaccurate descriptor in my opinion. The cash isn't making decisions. The "corporation" isn't making any decisions. People are making decisions. Corporations are just groups of people just like unions are groups of people and governments are groups of people. Whenever one of these entities commits some malicious act against someone it is because people decided to do it to other people. Framing it in any other way is just an attempt to make us feel better about the reality of the situation.

They have demonstrated a consistent commitment to user privacy that their peers have not

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