Sean's Blog

The title of this article suggests Apple being an evil empire may be an event of the future, but I think it’s already happened. Apple makes great products, but they’re doing the same exact things that got Microsoft into a lot of hot water, and had a lot of Apple folks calling for Bill Gates head. The big difference is that Apple’s products are (generally) quite good, whereas Microsoft’s products of the late-90s were absolute shit.

Maybe that’s all Apple needs to avoid characterizations of a monopoly or evil empire. But it certainly makes their 1984 commercial a bit hypocritical, in retrospect.