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I have been a loyal Apple supporter and complete fanboy of Apple since I bought my the first 128K Mac.  I never supported Epics's battle with Apple over their App Store policies. However, after what Tim Cook did to Parler in a Big Tech gang-up with Twitter, Google, FaceBook and Amazon by banning them from the App Store and thereby killing them as competition to Twitter and as a company, and even worse - selectively stopping free speech of political opponents. This is America - not a communist regime. 

So now I understand and fully support Epic and understand their point now, Apple has complete monopoly power which they abuse, this has to be stopped. Personally I can't do much about this, however I will never buy another Apple product (our whole family has Macs, iPads, iPhones, watches, Apple TVs) and have cancelled all my Apple services. I will also tell this to everyone I know. 

Tim Cook's saying Parler wasn't moderating their users enough doesn't hold up, Twitter has way worse and hateful stuff on their platform - I don't see Tim Cook banning Twitter from the App Store, Twitter selectively moderates against conservatives, everyone else is allowed free rein. This move by Tim Cook wasn't about public safety, it's completely political. No company should have this power to destroy other companies and thwart free speech to further their personal political agenda.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, just never expected it from Apple! So shocked and disappointed. 

The "Think Different" advertisement (I have the poster) was brilliant as conceived by Steve Jobs, unfortunately Tim Cook changed the message  - "Think different and you will be deleted!" 

I've come realize that blockchain technologies may save mankind from itself, that is if governments, and big tech, don't manage to squash it like they did to Parler.