(Nestlé boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
(Nike boycott) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
(South Africa boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_Stores_strike
Going into the registry is madness, especially when you're purchasing a license for the OS.
Personally I'm going to get a new mac when they get the ram up to 64GB with the new processors.
Concerning the other two, the Nestlé boycott does not seem to have had much, if any, impact, and it’s at least debatable if the Nike one did much, and if it did, then the impact is not due to informed individuals “speaking with their wallet”, but the wide publicity.
This is why I specified “consumer-level”; a boycott which includes continuous publicity from major media is no longer consumer-level.
“We got an awful lot of knocks back. People who we thought would have supported us: the Church, the government – who were all members of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement at the time,” she said.
The Dunnes strikers were given their greatest endorsement when the South African Bishop Desmond Tutu – at the time a vocal and renowned critic of apartheid – asked to meet them as he travelled to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in the December after the strike started.
https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-stores-strike-8-3690382-Nov...
If a boycott gets popular it's eventually going to get media coverage no?