I think you're trying to find meaning when there's no meaning what so ever.

Large phones were a bad idea because you cant use it with one finger, until iPhone Pro Maxes came out.

Installing apps from the internet is scary because viruses, yet Macs let you do that no questions asked.

Ads are bad and dangerous, until it shows up on Apple Maps.

Apple is just a simple company, existing to make as much money as possible. They make beautiful devices though - but no reason to put them on a pedestal.

> Installing apps from the internet is scary because viruses, yet Macs let you do that no questions asked.

Even before Gatekeeper, macOS/OSX File Quarantine prompted you when you went to open a .dmg or .zip you downloaded. These days anything not singed by an Apple Developer certificate refuses to open unless you remove the file attribute.

> Apple is just a simple company, existing to make as much money as possible. They make beautiful devices though - but no reason to put them on a pedestal.

Apple certainly exists to make money, but I don't think they exist solely to do that. They have long had a culture of enabling their users to do things that were previously the purview of big business or specialised fields. They don't sell you just hardware, they give you a whole office suite, audio production tools, development tools etc. all on top of high quality hardware.

With a MacBook and iPhone you can be a filmmaker, take and edit professional-quality photographs, record and produce your own music out of the box.

Maybe they used to be better at it than they are today, but Apple tends to spend more time putting their customers first than their competitors do.

This reads like the corporate edition of the goomba fallacy.

The individual at Apple who decided to try and keep phones small, for example is probably not the person who decided to make them big. I feel confident saying this because the person who was supposedly the driving force behind keeping them small died in 2011, and they didn't start releasing phones that are too large for comfortable one-handed use until 2014.