It has high tech, including Intel and many other companies, which tends to be even in large countries consolidated into a few areas.

Tons of talented engineers. Jewish people are thought to be very success oriented culturally. Stereotype in American movies and TV shows is that all the good lawyers are Jewish, etc. There's also a reason the modern nazi dogdwhistle for Jews is "international bankers".

I often wonder why people think Google is less evil than Apple

They control the de facto search engine. They control the de facto video sharing platform. They're the biggest ad company in the world. They control what world sees and hears.

I have no doubt they've secretly shaped opinion on themselves.

Both companies are evil, but in different ways so you just pick the side that most closely aligns with your goals.

For me I switched bc Google keeps randomly killing projects so I have no idea what service is going to work and which isn’t. They killed Inbox so I switched to Apple.

That and their ad business.

I want a pure Linux phone now.

….or that cabin in the woods is sounding pretty good.

It's just comfortable living in the mindset that your choise of product tribe somehow makes a difference. People shut down on the thought that pretty much everything is fucked.

Marketing, Apple has many privacy and security ads. While their privacy/security is not different from google.

where you find those people?

Seems like best thing is buy a pixel used and put grapheneOS on it.

The best tech that stolen American research and tax payer dollars can provide.

If I want to run two apps at the same time, I can just get two iPhone 17s and tape them together. I

t would save a couple hundred bucks also.

The controversy stems from Apple's employee donation-matching programme, which allows workers to make contributions to various non-profit organisations and receive matching funds from the company through a platform called Benevity. 

Among the charities Apple's controversial platform allows funds to be sent to are Friends of the IDF, which collects donations on behalf of Israeli occupation soldiers, and several groups that contribute to the settlement enterprise in the West Bank, such as HaYovel, One Israel Fund, the Jewish National Fund and IsraelGives.

Sounds like Apple is matching donations for genocidal employees, not specifically doing it ‘alone’ as it were.

They also fund the IDF and are involved with illegal settlements.

Are we sure about that?

I've used one of these corporate donation matching programs before (obviously I'm not donating to Israeli or IDF charities). Its essentially a large donation platform and web interface that allows corporations to offer the charity donation/matching systems to its employees. The donation platform Apple apparently uses is called "Benevity".

To be clear, I don't believe the corporate employer chooses the charities listed, it simply allows donations to all the charities the platform has registered. When I was searching for charities I donate to, I found many small obscure charities which surprised me. This suggests to me it doesn't take much to get registered if any action at all. Does Benevity simply get a list of every 501(c)(3) organization registered with the IRS?

From your article:

"Apple will be expected to take swift action to investigate and potentially cease matching donations to organisations linked to the Israeli military and illegal settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."

My question would be: Do we know for sure that any Apple employees even donated to these Israeli/IDF charities (and therefore received matched donations from Apple)? Just because the charities are listed on Benevity doesn't mean anyone actually donated? If zero Apple employees chose to make donations, then Apple would also have made zero donations. So before we crucify Apple for donating, do we have proof that there actually were any actual donations made?

I will say the effort to have the Israeli/IDF charities delisted as choices to Apple employees through Benevity is still a reasonable request, but that is a far smaller need/sin than actual donations to Israeli/IDF charities.

Usually a reference to disputed lands. I've seen similar usage when talking in context of indigenous rights, e.g., "Native tribes in so-called 'California' are..."

Censorword for Palestine

Same reason you'll often see "Rhodesia" or "Manchukuo" in quotes.