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by webwielder 4390 days ago
Not everyone is as cynical as you. I believe the people at Apple genuinely want to make great hardware and software that enhances people's lives. Their world-class accessibility support is proof enough of that.
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>the people at Apple genuinely want ... to enhance people's lives

I believe that too. However, I think that's generally true. You could replace Apple by Google or Microsoft there.

People on a whole are generally good (or at least I believe so).

If what you meant to say was "Apple cares about people and wouldn't let profit motives let them make questionable decisions, like including ads or adding DRM to software " then carry on.

If you indeed said what you meant to in your second sentence, then I think it was essentially meaningless since it's so generally true.

Come on, you don't get to be the highest valued company in the world by being altruistic. Apple produce great products (I happen to be using one now) but they charge prices that many cannot afford in order to make more money for themselves. That's not being cynical, just realistic.
No they just ignore the lower end of the market that makes 0 money and leaves everyone else fighting over the scraps.

There is a reason Dell bought Quest for billions of dollars. It is not because they see a bright future for the consumer pc market.