Comment by ppeetteerr

> it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily "bless" random people like a deity or something.

Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))

> I also can't help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.

It may be but so what? They could have done nothing, but they didn't. Good on them for doing this.