I mean, to be real here, it's continuing the principles of being run for a very long time by a world class, top tier, grade A asshole. Steve Jobs was well known for screaming at people and throwing fits of rage and such. Petulantly demanding that he get his way as the only possible method something could be done.
Does anyone seriously think that Jobs cared even the slightest about the Foxconn/Hon Hai Precision Industry factory workers? Or anything else other than the bottom line?
Hundreds of such anecodotes from hundreds of people. What do you expect from the corporate culture established by such a person?
No fan of Jobs here, but there's no logical connection between him being an asshole and Apple's decision to change AirDrop behavior more than a decade after his death.
I would posit that a hyper-aggressive corporate culture established by such a person, and continued in a not-very-modified form up until the present day, is more likely to make "accommodations" to things like the CCP and government of China for their local Apple cloud services subsidiary, provide crypto keys/copies of data on request, etc.
Because obviously it serves the global revenue and china-source-revenue figure to sell more Apple devices in China no matter the human rights and privacy consequences.
Does anyone seriously think that Jobs cared even the slightest about the Foxconn/Hon Hai Precision Industry factory workers? Or anything else other than the bottom line?
Hundreds of such anecodotes from hundreds of people. What do you expect from the corporate culture established by such a person?