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But Apple is one of the good embodiment of capitalism. It is a symbol of excessive consumption, surveillance for profit, and consumer-right abuse.
That being said, is not like most popular alternatives are any better. If people don't have time to switch to or even heard about better alternatives (upgradeable open hardware running an open community-driven OS), I guess it is not their fault.
Starbucks, however, has many alternatives (at least in the U.S.) that doesn't involve as much union busting and harmful labor practices.
Not in the ways you mentioned. Apple is the most profitable of them all though (due to their horrendous prices, duh), which doesn't fit an anti-capitalist attitude. I guess, it could be a second hand laptop but they are still supporting that ecosystem.