Neither is reddit, but the press doesn't seem to care and a lot of users don't realize it either.
Protip: Never make your brand "always lowercase" because it just won't work.
However, it has an advantage in that it's rarely the start of a sentence (usually it will be The iPhone), and anyone using a Mac will have it autocorrect.
So the brand still doesn't work, since Apple never uses an article.
They do use articles in their presentations sometimes, though