It's just funny that people want google to fuck herself while they are perfectly fine to be forced to sign in to comment either on the original article or here.
He is ranting that the Google offer app ask him to use the browser to redeem. For most Google offers, you can redeem directly from the app (it gives you a bar code), some of them maybe due to the settings of the vendor requires other means such as this one.
Works of art can have a monetary value - there is something called art market.
The value is determined by how much buyers are willing to pay as well as how much the sellers are willing to sell.
The monetary value of a copy of this low resolution jpeg file can only be determined by the market value.
You can't use replacement value to charge theft, because when someone "steal" it from the internet, they always copy it, you don't lose your origin one and thus no replacement is needed.
I am wondering what good does Apple do to customers when it forbids users from using software not paying to Apple or buying content that has nothing to do with Apple without paying Apple.