[seec]

A company that is making 45% net margin, mostly from their hardware sales (revenue from associated services is very dependent on the limitations they put in, on purpose); is not trying to make even more profit.

Like Apple sole focus in the last 10 years has been on insuring profit growth at all cost, annoying many customers in the process.

You are dangerously naive.

[resource_waste]

There is something particularly immoral about companies like Nintendo/Disney/Apple that have some sort of mind-control over their customers.

I think outsiders see this. There is something a bit 'off' about the loyalty of the customers. The other day I saw a family wear micky mouse ears in public. Someone else can define the difference between fandom and mental illness.

[brokenmachine]

Sometimes they seem so biased that I can't believe the company apologists are even real humans with freedom of will.

They argue for things that are counter to their own interests. It's difficult to avoid coming to the conclusion that I'm arguing with AI or a paid employee.

The existence of these people proves that there is something fundamentally different between my life experience and theirs. I must be missing a lot of context for why they act like they do.

[rchaud]

You can add in Tesla as well.

Apple and Tesla are unique in the levels of brandd zealotry they seem to induce. Nintendo users for example are unlikely to only ever use a Nintendo device...they may own other consoles or play other games on a computer.

Apple and Tesla users tend to only own and use those devices to the exclusion of everything else, which feeds the myopia.