Because I wouldn't expect a local council to be the right people to design laptops, right enough. But grApple are literally the last company I'd give money to if I was buying one new, precisely *because* they such an autocracy.
As well as all the reasons @codinghorror explained here back in 2008;
https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-doesnt-anyone-give-a-crap-about-freedom-zero/
... among many, many others, like these;
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/apple
So who would I give that money to instead?
(1/?)