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It’s very sad to see the way that your company is behaving in this fight with Epic Games. To be clear, it’s just that: a schoolyard dust-up between a couple of immature boys.

But it’s more than that.

While your company still makes some great products, it’s becoming more apparent that the company is not made up of great people. The actions of your Developer Relations organization have been spiteful and vindictive, as well as capricious and hypocritical.

You keep your platform closed, hiding behind the banner of “user privacy”, but I’m certain that there’s more to it. The scrappy start-ups, like Apple of yesteryear, aren’t afraid of the competition. It’s the behemoths who hoard their wealth, who stomp on anything that comes close, who become territorial and possessive, who stifle any competition, for fear of losing those precious dollars for which they’ve worked so hard. That’s what Apple has become.

You claim to respect user privacy, but it appears that you respect nothing else, save perhaps the Almighty Dollar. You’re the most valuable company in the world right now, and you still act like you need to squeeze every last penny from everything around you.

You’ve become a bully.

While you may or may not be doing anything illegal, it’s certainly unethical, and lacks any sort of decent moral compass.

Your words to Congress recently were duplicitous and danced around the real issue, which you fully understood, and you took advantage of the ignorance of the politicians questioning you. I thought you were better than that.

While I will probably continue to use my Mac and iOS devices, it is with regret. You no longer have my loyalty, because it’s clear that you don’t really care.

Sincerely,

Paul Schifferer

And then this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/05/new-york-state-57-police-resign-to-support-officers-fired-for-shoving-75-year-old

“Why? Why was that necessary? Where was the threat?” asked the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, at his daily briefing on Friday, saying he had spoken to Gugino. “It’s just fundamentally offensive and frightening. How did we get to this place?”

But the local police union boss defended his officers. “Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president, according to WGRZ.

“Disgust”? They were punished for mistreating an elderly man. “Simply executing orders”? So their orders were to abuse those they’re sworn to serve and protect?

Good riddance. We don’t need your kind of filth on the police force. Don’t come back. You are part of the problem, not the solution.

This is wrong: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/05/aleksandar-katai-wife-racist-social-media

Why should he be held responsible for her words?

This kind of hyper-sensitive, politically-correct stupidity has got to stop. The so-called “tolerant” left is about the furthest thing from tolerant. “Your wife said something unpleasant, so we can’t have anything to do with you.”

We’re trying so hard to become a socialist police-state, so why don’t we send him and his wife to “re-education” or indoctrination training, so they can learn to think like good little plebs?

So many good points in this article, except for the retarded cry of “separation of church and state”. There is no notion of separating the church from the state in the Constitution. The idea is to prevent the imposition and sanction of a state religion or belief system on the people.

Every one of these organizations that acts on their hypersensitivity needs to be treated likewise: publicly eviscerated every time they make a mistake.