This dosen't mean anything at all. Per SEC requirements, you just have to own $25,000 in stock (or $2,000 if you have held it >3 years) in a company to put forward a non-binding shareholder resolution.
Union and environmental groups have been doing this for years with an assortment of companies, mostly to raise their own profile with the press.
Hmm yeah. When you have distributed ownership, largely to funds with a duty to vote for whatever increases the stock price, you pretty much just distribute and dilute any ethical or societal obligations when looking at the broad voter population.
Yes and no. It meaningless directly, but it can help to amplify the message to Apple management. If public uproar did cause them to reconsider their approach to CSAM, maybe there is a chance they will retink their abominable environmental policy.
Right to repair is really only important for hobbyists and for people with lower incomes. CSAM scanning is an attack on their core userbase, those who are technically inclined and want a phone/computer that cares about your privacy.
I'm completely fine monetarily with tossing a phone in the garbage if it breaks and getting a new one
There are people like me that can afford an expensive phone or computer but keep using their 5 years old devices, even as a developer there is no justification to run the latest 32 core Threadripper or latest CoolPhone (you could say as a dev you should feel how stuff runs on medium spec devices).
Anyway you classified most Apple users as rich people that can throw away 500+ dollars and don't care about environment . Sure there are some rich Apple users , and people that are into Applo as an identity but I assume not all as you, I mean it was proven with the keyboard issues, with the battery issues , with the GPU issues - some fanboys blamed the users but in the end the majority did not bought a new device but forced Apple (sometimes with the help of the justice system) to fix their devices and be transparent about stuff.
But sure, throw away a good laptop when a key is broken, be proud of it too , let us know how much money you have and how much you hate right to repair.
There is a Swedish.. uh... "Tradition"? in Stockholm called "Vaska"[0]- basically the point is to buy a really expensive bottle of alcohol and pour it out.
Why? Status. It's pretty universally reviled by the rest of Sweden; but people do it.
The same is true of Apple devices, some people buy the latest one every year; but much like consumers of alcohol, the people who buy the yearly phones are in the small minority, just like the people who "Vaska", and both are similarly reviled by the other consumers of those products.
I think the keyboard fiasco has shown the opposite. Apple did cave in, eventually, but it still took three years. The keyboard were definitely a huge problem but enough people didn’t care for apple to keep the keyboard for a whole cycle.
"I'm completely fine monetarily with tossing a phone in the garbage if it breaks and getting a new one"
Maybe. There are non-economic reasons to consider repair instead of replacement, or there would be if repair was a feasible option. For example, maybe someone feels a moral obligation to reduce the demand for tantalum (or to not personally add to it):
Apple has basically thrown their hands up and said, "It's just too hard to keep Congolese tantalum out of the supply chain." Meanwhile, their products are hard to repair and encourage people to just buy replacements (and thus consume more tantalum, some of which is paying for the worst war crimes imaginable)...
There's a phone repair shop in my town and every single time I've passed by when it's open, there are customers inside. I don't think those people are hobbyists.
Many iPhone owners use financing from their carrier, their credit line, or Apple's payment plans to purchase their Apple devices. iPhone owners are not universally well off enough to be able to toss a phone when it is broken instead of repairing it. Even among the iPhone owners who are able to do this, some of them would prefer to repair their devices because it is the more environmentally sustainable option, or because they prefer not to spend more than they need to.
Union and environmental groups have been doing this for years with an assortment of companies, mostly to raise their own profile with the press.