Because either you're struggling for human progress doing research and building tech that empowers people, or you're struggling for profit building harmful tech for the common people. Apple is in the latter category (to be fair, most if not all hardware/software manufacturers are) and has shown time and time again that they were strongly opposed to consumer rights:

- pushing updates to slow down older iOS to "encourage" users to buy a new phone

- starting with the iPhone they didn't even sell official spare parts, and did all they could to make it hard to crack the phones open (proprietary screw, fuck that) to repair them

- lying to consumers about warranty laws, implying their products would be covered only 1y despite european regulations mandating 2y minimum

- getting into cushy mafia-like agreements with phone providers which inundated the market with "cheap" iPhones subsided by non-iPhone subscribers

- using proprietary connectors wherever they can (no ethernet? no jack? FUCK)

- by making it harder to use non-Apple-approved applications on MacOS and making it so applications can't even start when their "approval" server is down?!

- and so much more, just like with every other company

We need tech that empowers people. Private companies and Nation States are building a dystopian nightmare that's the exact opposite of that (we're in a cross-over fanfiction mixing Orwell and Huxley). Apple is certainly part of that.