[nindalf]

In today's world you're pretty much forced to own a smartphone if you want to have a “normal” life.

And half of all US taxpayers pay Apple for this privilege. That still doesn’t mean Apple is taxpayer funded.

Hear me out, this may sound crazy, but maybe we should call something taxpayer funded if … it’s actually funded by taxes. Not if it is simply used by a person who may or may not pay taxes.

[paganel]

> And half of all US taxpayers pay Apple for this privilege. That still doesn’t mean Apple is taxpayer funded.

That's what's coming next, hopefully. For all its many faults the EU is going down that path in regards to the mobile phone industry and the related ecosystem. It's telling that the one article bashing Apple the company that is now on the HN home page has first been published by a French magazine.

Also, let's leave the "hear me out" thing to reddit.

[nindalf]

Curious you didn’t respond to the part right after “hear me out”. You know, the actual substance of my comment.

Could we leave that behaviour in reddit too?