I find it is useful to do so for all corporations.

Whose interests corporations act in is not arbitrary, it’s tied to how they make money.

Meta and Google make their money primarily from advertisers, Apple makes money from consumers buying iPhones. One of the upsides to paying for something is that the company is incentivized to keep you paying or get you to pay more.

Something I remind people who buy cheaper Android phones and then complain about ads - the OS development is being subsidized by those ads. From Google’s perspective, securing their revenue stream is the justification for Chrome and Android’s existence. It’s not a purely altruistic move to fund their open source development.

Charts of the revenue stream for some major tech companies:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-does-meta-make-...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/alphabets-revenue-breakdown...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-apple-makes-its...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-amazon-makes-its-billio...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-microsoft-makes-its-bil...

Older aggregate chart:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-bi...

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kstrauser 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure, but most aren’t able to execute on their evil so effectively.

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amelius 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple included?

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metalliqaz 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. Apple is a huge corporation and I feel confident that such an entity would happily harm any person or group of persons in the pursuit of profit.

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amelius 2 days ago | parent [-]

Are there any examples?

	▲	antiframe 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I get the impression that Apple would rather have lower hardware manufacturing costs than ensure fair working conditions, as an example of harming people in the pursuit of profit. [1] Perhaps that's not "bad enough" but I think the general sentiment that corporations value profits over harms to people (especially since they often try to distance themselves by offshoring, etc) applies to Apple as well. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-30532463
	▲	thenthenthen a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The host the data for Chinese customers in a mainland datacenter. Chinese iPhones can not use eSims. Foxconn has nets…
	▲	fsflover 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25607386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43852145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44529061

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stronglikedan 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Absolutely, if in nothing else but their pricing!

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AdamN 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not really. Meta is kind of the most corrupt towards users of the big tech companies imho. All companies want to make a profit but Meta has very few scruples.