Comment by Grombobulous

Hopefully I’m not being too pedantic, but I am saying that we can’t just use the words “planned economy” or “central planning” to describe a single company’s actions.

It’s just not what those words mean.

Apple is a large company but they are still just one company.

A single business can’t be doing “central planning,” it is by definition not in charge of the whole market.

Central planning would be if the government mandated that Micron to make ## of memory chips and distribute ## of them to Company A and ## of them to Company B.

Apple has no such power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy