Summary: Apple has turned from somewhat of an underdog nearing bankruptcy into an attack dog and master of mass hypnosis. I explain my concerns about Apple in this ramble.
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it