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'''Apple Inc.''' is a computer technology and consumer goods mega-corporation based in the [[United States]]. Founded in 1976, Apple is one of the entities which constitutes the "[[big tech]]" corporate [[oligopoly]]. As of 2023, Apple products consume a considerable market share in [[Western]] countries.<ref>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-quarterly-pc-shipment-share-apple/ Apple's PC unit shipment share in the United States from 2013 to 2023, by quarter] ''Statista'' </ref> | '''Apple Inc.''' is a computer technology and consumer goods mega-corporation based in the [[United States]]. Founded in 1976, Apple is one of the entities which constitutes the "[[big tech]]" corporate [[oligopoly]]. As of 2023, Apple products consume a considerable market share in [[Western]] countries.<ref>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-quarterly-pc-shipment-share-apple/ Apple's PC unit shipment share in the United States from 2013 to 2023, by quarter] ''Statista'' </ref> | ||
Apple is infamous for its consistent labor abuses, privacy violations, and generally anti-consumer practices. Apple, similar to other transnational mega-corporations, perpetrates [[imperialism]] via exporting their industries to less developed markets. Apple products are often manufactured in inhumane and oppressive conditions with meager wages.<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/document/95395223/Sweatshops-Are-Good-for-Apple-and-Foxconn-But-Not-for-Workers# Sweatshops Are Good For Apple and Foxconn, But Not For Workers] by Yi Yi Debby (31 May, 2012) ''Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour'' </ref> Apple also regularly collaborates in mass-surveillance efforts with imperialist governments,<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa/?guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmN6Lw&guce_referrer_cs=U5TxrCVG_vXnTBe_Cuw88A Why Was Apple Late To the PRISM Party?] by Alexia Tsotsis (18 June, 2013) ''TechCrunch'' </ref><ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN1AU1LH China's Guizhou province to oversee Apple's data project] (14 August, 2017) ''Reuters'' </ref> which is aided by the mega-corporation's [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] operating systems and software.<ref name=":0">[https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware] ''gnu.org''</ref> | Apple is infamous for its consistent labor abuses, privacy violations, and generally anti-consumer practices. Apple, similar to other transnational mega-corporations, perpetrates [[imperialism]] via exporting their industries to less developed markets. Apple products are often manufactured in inhumane and oppressive conditions with meager wages.<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/document/95395223/Sweatshops-Are-Good-for-Apple-and-Foxconn-But-Not-for-Workers# Sweatshops Are Good For Apple and Foxconn, But Not For Workers] by Yi Yi Debby (31 May, 2012) ''Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour'' </ref> Apple also regularly collaborates in mass-surveillance efforts with imperialist governments,<ref name=":3">[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa/?guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmN6Lw&guce_referrer_cs=U5TxrCVG_vXnTBe_Cuw88A Why Was Apple Late To the PRISM Party?] by Alexia Tsotsis (18 June, 2013) ''TechCrunch'' </ref><ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN1AU1LH China's Guizhou province to oversee Apple's data project] (14 August, 2017) ''Reuters'' </ref> which is aided by the mega-corporation's [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] operating systems and software.<ref name=":0">[https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware] ''gnu.org''</ref> | ||
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=== Privacy violations === | === Privacy violations === | ||
Users of Apple's proprietary operating systems (macOS and iOS) are regularly subjected to invasive telemetry and other forms of privacy intrusions from Apple.<ref name=":0" /> By default — and particularly with more recent versions of macOS — Apple collects the IP address and location associated with users' computers,<ref>[https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-explains-why-it-grabs-data-from-mac-computers-amid-privacy-concerns Apple Explains Why It Grabs Data From Mac Computers Amid Privacy Concerns] by Michael Kan (16 November, 2020) ''pcmag.com''</ref> the exact applications installed and opened by users,<ref name=":1">[https://mspoweruser.com/macos-big-sur-has-its-own-telemetry-privacy-nightmare/ macOS Big Sur has its own telemetry privacy nightmare] by Surur (20 November, 2020) ''MSpoweruser''</ref> technical information on users' devices,<ref name=":2">[https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/ Apple Privacy Policy] ''Apple''</ref> along with other personal data such as financial and health information.<ref name=":2" /> Such sensitive data is, at least since the release of macOS Big Sur, impossible | Users of Apple's proprietary operating systems (macOS and iOS) are regularly subjected to invasive telemetry and other forms of privacy intrusions from Apple.<ref name=":0" /> By default — and particularly with more recent versions of macOS — Apple collects the IP address and location associated with users' computers,<ref>[https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-explains-why-it-grabs-data-from-mac-computers-amid-privacy-concerns Apple Explains Why It Grabs Data From Mac Computers Amid Privacy Concerns] by Michael Kan (16 November, 2020) ''pcmag.com''</ref> the exact applications installed and opened by users,<ref name=":1">[https://mspoweruser.com/macos-big-sur-has-its-own-telemetry-privacy-nightmare/ macOS Big Sur has its own telemetry privacy nightmare] by Surur (20 November, 2020) ''MSpoweruser''</ref> technical information on users' devices,<ref name=":2">[https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/ Apple Privacy Policy] ''Apple''</ref> along with other personal data such as financial and health information.<ref name=":2" /> Such sensitive data is, at least since the release of macOS Big Sur, impossible to fully block and is transmitted in plain-text.<ref name=":1" /> While it is possible to, at least nominally, prevent some of this telemetry via altering the privacy settings on macOS, given the non-[[Free and open-source software|open-source]] nature of Apple's operating systems, it is impossible to fully know if such telemetry is actually disabled. | ||
Apple's operating systems are known to likely contain multiple backdoors within them.<ref name=":0" /> This, in combination with the fact that Apple collaborates in the US government's [[PRISM]] surveillance program,<ref name=":3" /> results in Apple operating systems possessing a lack of user privacy similar to [[Microsoft]]'s own proprietary operating system Windows. | |||
=== Labor abuses === | === Labor abuses === | ||
Revision as of 18:58, 4 September 2023
Apple Inc. is a computer technology and consumer goods mega-corporation based in the United States. Founded in 1976, Apple is one of the entities which constitutes the "big tech" corporate oligopoly. As of 2023, Apple products consume a considerable market share in Western countries.[1]
Apple is infamous for its consistent labor abuses, privacy violations, and generally anti-consumer practices. Apple, similar to other transnational mega-corporations, perpetrates imperialism via exporting their industries to less developed markets. Apple products are often manufactured in inhumane and oppressive conditions with meager wages.[2] Apple also regularly collaborates in mass-surveillance efforts with imperialist governments,[3][4] which is aided by the mega-corporation's proprietary operating systems and software.[5]
History
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Practices
Privacy violations
Users of Apple's proprietary operating systems (macOS and iOS) are regularly subjected to invasive telemetry and other forms of privacy intrusions from Apple.[5] By default — and particularly with more recent versions of macOS — Apple collects the IP address and location associated with users' computers,[6] the exact applications installed and opened by users,[7] technical information on users' devices,[8] along with other personal data such as financial and health information.[8] Such sensitive data is, at least since the release of macOS Big Sur, impossible to fully block and is transmitted in plain-text.[7] While it is possible to, at least nominally, prevent some of this telemetry via altering the privacy settings on macOS, given the non-open-source nature of Apple's operating systems, it is impossible to fully know if such telemetry is actually disabled.
Apple's operating systems are known to likely contain multiple backdoors within them.[5] This, in combination with the fact that Apple collaborates in the US government's PRISM surveillance program,[3] results in Apple operating systems possessing a lack of user privacy similar to Microsoft's own proprietary operating system Windows.
Labor abuses
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Planned obsolesce
Commercial locations
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Headquarters
More and more of the world’s wealth is being captured by the giant multinational corporations. This continues to be true even while the long-developing world capitalist overproduction crisis intensifies, which means that many big corporations are awash in huge cash hoards that they don’t know what to do with. This has led a number of them into a trend of creating enormously wasteful monuments to themselves, on a par with the giant pyramids of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. The picture at the right is of the new enormously expensive Apple Corporation headquarters now under construction in Silicon Valley (California), which is in the shape of a giant space ship.
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Apple's PC unit shipment share in the United States from 2013 to 2023, by quarter Statista
- ↑ Sweatshops Are Good For Apple and Foxconn, But Not For Workers by Yi Yi Debby (31 May, 2012) Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Why Was Apple Late To the PRISM Party? by Alexia Tsotsis (18 June, 2013) TechCrunch
- ↑ China's Guizhou province to oversee Apple's data project (14 August, 2017) Reuters
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware gnu.org
- ↑ Apple Explains Why It Grabs Data From Mac Computers Amid Privacy Concerns by Michael Kan (16 November, 2020) pcmag.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 macOS Big Sur has its own telemetry privacy nightmare by Surur (20 November, 2020) MSpoweruser
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Apple Privacy Policy Apple