Off-topic comparison.

1. Apple is heavily scrutinized.

2. Airplanes have high standards for design and manufacturing as errors have serious consequences. Boeing has recent failures and deserves to be under a microscope.

I believe you're quite wrong. I read the article. They discovered some minor non-conformance that's not safety related and are fixing it. Airplanes are incredibly complex machines with millions of parts. Scaling this analogy it's like a finding a minor manufacturing issue with the iPhone's PCB. Which probably happens all the time and you'd never know or hear about it. I can't think of a single Apple product I've owned that didn't have some defect that required a widespread "repair program" to resolve.

The original statement complained about was a rhetorical whataboutism. The detailed response should’ve been posted instead. The Apple comparison isn’t useful nor relevant. Although airplanes are complex, they have strict guidelines at every level and have traceability of materials and labor along with various testing and audit protocols.

Are you familiar with the concept of news.....