Apple Inc.

Logo of Apple Inc. since 1998.

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.

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. Apple also regularly collaborates in mass-surveillance efforts with imperialist governments, which is aided by the mega-corporation's proprietary operating systems and software.

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. By default — and particularly with more recent versions of macOS — Apple collects the IP address and location associated with users' computers, the exact applications installed and opened by users, technical information on users' devices, along with other personal data such as financial and health information. Such sensitive data is, at least since the release of macOS Big Sur, impossible and fully block and is transmitted in plain-text. 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. This, in combination with the fact that Apple collaborates in the US government's PRISM surveillance program, results in Apple operating systems possessing a lack of user privacy similar to Microsoft's own proprietary operating system Windows.

Commercial locations

The extravagant corporate headquarters of Apple.

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

• Microsoft
• Steve Jobs
• Mass surveillance in the United States
• Planned obsolesce

External links

• Reasons not to use Apple