Apple, Google and Microsoft are merely support lackeys for the orange pedophile.

I feel strangely grateful to Microsoft for shooting itself in the foot like that

In the end of the day they‘re all part of the Epstein class.

"Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a soul or an Alphabet when you are unable to speak?"

The clip of that is one of the most grovelling and cringeworthy things I have ever seen.

I don't know how Cook can ever look anyone in the eye again

I actually think this is funny. And alarming, but not the way I hear people talk about this. I feel like Apple was really smart here, offering a fairly measly, cheap, pointless trinket to continue making money hand over fist in the US. Tim was smart here, ROI must have been MASSIVE for that with the tariffs and such.

However the real reason I think this is interesting is that it shows publicly and blatantly just how easily Trump can be paid off and placated and should have been be a huge wake up call for ANY of his supporters and peers. Between this and the FIFA trinket, no one in government should be so easily bought/paid off. I never got why people didn't go after Trump legally and in the news for even thinking of accepting something like this.

I was going to say what's changed from that day? Did those employees not see the news?

Normies are locked in the apple ecosystem. Getting android, let alone with Graphene OS would sap their ability to use that said ecosystem.

Hey hey hey,

They stand up against unions

They stand up against cheap, green energy

They stand up against human rights

They stand up against good working conditions

They stand up against good and affordable medical care

They stand up against required paid sick leave and maternity leave

They stand up against regulations to not poison people or exploit people quite so much

They stand up against anything that might slightly hurt short term profits.

They pump tens or hundreds of billions at the government to "stand up to them". Just always, without exception, to pommel the working class and long term into the ground and sacrifice the long term for short term superficial gains.

Corporations control the government in the US. The government is bad because of corporations and neither are going to save you from either.

Submit to reality, take no action and apply no pressure.

I dont rate this advice.

Expect nothing, demand it anyway.

Except Costco. They did stand up against the DEI bullshit and recently have expressly said they won't buy and distributed the imported beef. I assume there's more between those two points in time, I'm just not aware. One of the few out there doing good stuff.

They get pretty aggressive at any talk of regulation

That's incorrect. They stand up to government all the time

Great Again?

'How about Corporatism' - Mussolini

The anti-democratic system is called an Oligarchy!

Maybe. It’s inauspicious at best.

Most prominent CEOs want a successor that fails because it makes them look better in retrospect.

I don’t think this new CEO is going to last more than a year. He has all the charisma of Gil Amelio.

…nothing like the old CEO…

I was thinking of Gil this morning, very much reminiscent.

But wearables are like 3/4 of Apple's strategy for the future and optical is a huge part of that and the Vision Pro is just them getting started, not them bowing out. They just want others to enter the space and start making these expensive mistakes so Apple doesn't have to, including overcoming the social barrier of filming literally everything. It's coming. Just like folks didn't really resist social media, we're not going to really resist this.

Don't underestimate the cult. Its users parrot corporate PR scripts verbatim. "Yes we love the walled garden and developer fees. It ensures Apple is doing everything it can to keep me safe."

I switched this when Apple announced ads were coming to maps and have been very happy, some places don’t exist but with an OSM account you can contribute to a better map which is nice

Is there a way to get it to route around current traffic?

Well, that's what Nazi Germany did...

Easy to say when it isn't your job in this economy, plus a family.

made a $100B commitment to US manufacturing

Why is that bad though?

The “24k gold base” was likely a thin layer, but whatever, yeah they gave him ~10-100k in gold and implied unwarranted praise in exchange for points. They also committed $600 billion ($100 billion more than before trump won, thanks a lot everybody) to build manufacturing in the US, which, if someone’s mad about that - sorry.

The ballroom is worse, but this is even worse yet, yes. I don’t have to look at his participation trophy, i don’t ever expect to see the Epstein Ballroom and Bunker Boys Club built, but everyone in the world can see this idiotic “renaming”. That’s not strategic, that’s not hedging, that’s just pathetic.

Been doing this for decades, and somehow the billionaires keep out-money-voting me.

Not that trying doesn't help, but the world needs more than the few good people spending all of their energy and power in filling the gaps of a system designed to leave gaps, specifically to enrich the less generous people via a hoarding competition.

Almost as if having cultures built entirely around letting less good people amass power while punishing those who actually contribute to the world around them.

Some reason, changing our culture to something that rewards generosity is just never on the table. Those who care enough to affect anything larger scale have already given up their power out of basic decency in a world full of suffering, or had it taken from them by those who chose hoarding and extracting instead.

Or people could just tax the rich to the point they can't spend their time and power rigging political objectives, rather than doing literally anything positive for society.

Etc.

iTrump

They're not tech bros, if that implies they know anything about tech. They're members of the owning class who happen to have bought into tech.

It’s the lowest possible bar for them to tell him that he is being stupid and they won’t even do that. That’s why I am annoyed with them. What we really want is for all the guys in their lifted Dodge trucks with the “shoot your local pedophile” sticker to actually follow through. And then Nuremberg the rest of the fascist administration.

It's not their problem until it affects them.

Democracy is for the people, but the people vote intentional ignorance.

More than one thing can be objectionable.

Sir, this is a Wendy's

Ha ha, like people are going to switch en masse to google phones. You know, the company that changes the map first.

Don't blame people for choices they cannot impact. If you tried to buy stuff only from ethical companies, you'd be broke or just not buy food/stuff.

Lol wut? "My brain is not especially fucked enough right now so I'd like an extra special DOUBLE helping of corporate machine bullshit today, thank you!"

I think you should take that hit for the team, obviously. If you believe one is required.

The random employees?

One of the marketing managers was flayed on a spit. Jeez rtfa!

/s yeah its lame but wygd, quit? In this context I read it as employee morale takes a kick in the ‘nards so go poach some applers or expect bad stuff to happen there next. Both being bad for apple and both the result of some internal chatter.

Ooh good, yes. I was playing on tim apple but maybe john doesn’t even get far enough to be corponamed by the demented rapist.