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Comment by justapassenger | Hacker News Reader

Apple will fight for the user. In USA, where not only it doesn't really cost them much, but gets them huge PR boost and makes more money.

It's harder to have principles when it could cost you a lot of money, like in China.

I use iPhone, but never for a second believed in Apple PR BS how they're better than other companies. Never believe salesman who works on a commission.

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Apple will don't for the user when it's good for their bottom line. When doing so can hurt them, as in defying the wishes of an authoritarian government that just so happens to run the country where the bulk of their manufacturing happens, they aren't quite so altruistic anymore.

Which I don't really have a problem with, except that they market themselves as doing everything for the user, and have cultivated a cult-like image supporting that.

Apple is fighting only for the one thing - the money.

If that means they need to sacrifice some people (especially outside US) - they will do it.

Specifically, Apple only fights for user security because since 2013 or so they've had a giant pile of liquid money and have been determined to get into the banking, payments, and rent seeking business. To make their phones useful payment terminals they have to be relatively secure. It's not about the user. It's about seeking rent from the user.

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"

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