by Moran August 2nd 2012, 3:01 am
Apple, Google1, Sony2, Microsoft3.
Also, in general, I effectively boycott almost all corporations because there are only a select few things I actually buy. I'm very good with my hands, and I can make all sorts of fancy machines, trinkets, etc. myself. I don't have many utility bills to pay either, living way out in the sticks where I'm free to take care of such resource management all on my own, and able to do so. I do have to buy food, but I theoretically have enough food and seeds saved to survive complete economic collapse to such a point where even basic resources like sustenance are no longer bought and sold, so I could damn well not buy a single thing for the rest of my life if I wanted to badly enough.
1: I'm fine with using their free services; thanks to ABP, they've not gotten a penny out of me.
2: Sony makes a good console and good games for that console; that's all I support from them. Everything else they make is overpriced garbage.
3: I have Vista, but I got it before I started boycotting Gates's pile o' shit. If I ever have a Windows OS after Vista and/or my PC inevitably craps out, it will surely be pirated; else, I'll use Linux et al. Also, I'm fine using free stuff like with Google. I can't remove ads from, e.g., WLM, but they surely get either nothing or next to nothing if I don't click them so I'm fine with that much.