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Comment by FredPret | Hacker News Reader

Apple fan here - I have no illusions about them being a saint. I like that their profit motive aligns with my interests. Charge me a lot for quality and simplicity.

Google makes money not from selling me a good product, but by selling my information, and Microsoft seems determined to confuse and frustrate, profiting from lockin rather than quality.

Yes, I'm concerned that Apple is selling ads.

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The alignment between their profit and your interests ceases to exist the moment they separate you from your money, and you become trapped in their ecosystem.

> I like that their profit motive aligns with my interests.

It's a common expression I see around here, but you do not know their profit motives. You only know their marketing and hold a perception of them. They are not the same thing, there cannot be alignment.

By removing audio jacks from everything Apple is not my friend. I had to buy special hardware to fix their spartan tablet to play MIDI music - how do you get audio out without lag when the input is required for connecting to the keyboard? Certainly not from the jack output.

> By removing audio jacks from everything Apple is not my friend.

I agree that this was a terrible decision (although as a non-Apple user, I wouldn't care except that so many non-Apple companies followed Apple's lead here).

But to be fair, that's a product design decision, not really one with moral implications.

And most definitely not from Bluetooth

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