Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because it’s the top American company. US protects Apple and allies can’t work against that. Now that US and EU relationship is deteriorating we’ll see loads of lawsuits against Apple pop up in Europe.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 1 week ago
How do you define ‘top company’?
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Probably market cap
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And cultural impact. Americans are super patriotic about Apple and don’t even notice it.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eh, they’re perceived as more “lefty” than most of the stereotypically “patriotic” corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a “crunchy granola” reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other “woke” people, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call “woke” without blinking an eye.
I think it’s all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply about eroding democratic norms, and the removal of people’s rights – or at least claim to – that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.