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A double strike makes sense. Actors won't be working when writers are on strike and vice-versa. Striking at the same time gets the same results (better pay) while reducing substantially their lost pay.

I find it amusing that some posters assume that Apple takes what they believe are the proper political stance on issues such as whether men can go into a women's restroom. That creepy behavior is, for them, the "proper" stance.

They're forgetting that Apple never lets politics, either good or perverted, interfere with making a comfortable profit. It chatters endlessly about privacy but for many years has done most of its manufacturing in China, the largest and most technologically intrusive regime in human history. Only Covid-related production problems and rising labor costs are forcing it to move production elsewhere.

We see the same behavior with app availability. When a one-party dictatorship such as China wants Apple to remove an app that aids pro-democracy demonstrations, it does so without complaint. But when the democratic Netherlands insists that Apple quit taking a 30% share of the income from dating apps, Apple turns defiant. 

Apple's corporate policy is obvious and consistent. Money rules. Nothing else matters.