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Just treat it as robbery. Intended or not, justifiable somehow or not, - why the hell walk the same street where many people have been robbed.
Apple and Google and other products are not this valuable.
Yes, looks nice. But they are assholes. Leave them be.
If enough people treated the matter like this, not putting particular belief or care into any specific firm with its logo and its technologies none of which are wonderful and unique, we'd have a better world.
There's still deeply ingrained perception of those companies and that industry as of some leviathans, that can't be replaced, space age tech, inventor holy orders, something like that. The tech has already been made in many variants and tested and studied. It's not cutting edge anymore to have a global network. Neither are usable UIs. Modern operating systems have not progressed much ideologically since RSX-11 and TRON.
People treat these companies as something precious for the reality. Nothing will be lost if Apple, MS, Google and others all die at once. All tech is made by engineers. I assure you we won't fall into stone age.
Don't deal with assholes. If there are only assholes offering a specific kind of goods, then choose the least known noname Chinese producer, it'll at least cost what it's worth.