On: Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M

[opencl]

This appears to count all the employees of all the suppliers Apple buys anything from and the entire "app economy" including people who write apps for non-Apple platforms.

[alpb → opencl]

This is like Google counting everyone who indirectly works on developing of a website that displays/sells via Google Ads, which is the majority of the digital economy, am I right?

[DeepYogurt → alpb]

It probably means that apple employees work for google too

[robertAngst → opencl]

To be fair, Apple forces you to use their proprietary hardware and software.

This means you must join the Apple ecosystem to compete, even if you strongly disagree with their practices.