Comment by akudha
4 years ago
Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you.
The point is, things like this should never happen in the first place.
They are probably checking how far they can go, before it affects their bottom line.
I don't think they are "checking"; they've carefully planned a path and are slowly and meticulously executing on it. They have no intention to stop at any point. Should the money stop flowing, they'll just come up with a new gadget. To make them backtrack on the walled garden would take an extinction-threatening event that (unfortunately) will never be on the cards as long as nobody can seriously threaten the iPhone.
I’m not so sure. A handful of high-profile opinions + a few hundred low-brow peeps like myself calling out bad behaviour can have a noticeable impact on sales in the mid-term.