[joatmon-snoo]

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Sure, Apple offshoring their semiconductor mfg compounded the US' lack of domestic semiconductor mfg capacity/expertise.

Apple also did that because it is a _business_, and has not always been the behemoth it is today. They went overseas because it made more sense, not because they had some anti-American goal of crippling US mfg capabilities.

The AELP is, ideologically, a anti-big-co institute, which is admirable but is also why this piece engages in post hoc ergo propter hoc rather than discussing meaningful policy proposals:

> The American Economic Liberties Project launched in February 2020 to help translate the intellectual victories of the anti-monopoly movement into momentum towards concrete, wide-ranging policy changes that begin to address today’s crisis of concentrated economic power

[blackeyeblitzar]

I have to say I’m glad to hear of organizations mobilizing around these problems. Companies above some size reduce fair competition just due to their size, and we need to stop wasting time litigating technicalities with them. Our existing laws and definitions fall really short of recognizing - let alone addressing - the problem (of how competition with them isn’t fair, how it concentrates power, how consumers have little choice). It’s why Microsoft can get away with bundling Teams or abusing Windows users with dark patterns, why Apple can get away with locking down the devices we own with walled gardens and extorting developers with App Store or payment fees, it’s why Google can operate for two decades as a monopoly, and so on. This needs to change, and fast.

[EarlKing]

Yeah, it made sense to management looking to increase shareholder value. OTOH, since Apple isn't competing on price, they didn't have to do that. So everything that has ever, or will ever, go wrong with their devices is an entirely self-inflicted wound, and anyone who buys their products gets exactly what they deserve for buying from a company that cares more about profits than the people.

[dickersnoodle]

>a company that cares more about profits than the people.

Now you're on the hook for showing us a company that cares more about people than profits... and I mean actually cares where it counts, in budget and headcount and not just in gauzy HR propaganda.