Tim Cuck
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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Not a "gift". It was a BRIBE !!
that makes him a fascist.
Tim Apple has turned into such a disappointing bootlicker.
it's fascism, all CEOs bend down.
no person with principles against fascism would never become a CEO, basic human decency is bad for the investors
There was once a time when a small company built out of passion could elevate a normal guy into CEO, so as recently as 30-40 years ago you could still have some decency at the top. As the barriers to entry have shot upward, today to become a C-level you get an MBA and carefully scrape out your soul as part of your "leadership" education which has nothing to do with the widgets your company will produce, and everything to do with fellating the shareholders.
It's sad because I grew up in an era when a guy could still get ahead by being sharp and having good ideas, but now it's only by Playing The Game. So those of us with morals are stuck with low earning potential because of it.
ish. but if there are shareholders, the CEO is replaceable. and principles aren't good for immediate profits.
Smells like an opportunity to cause Apple brand damage.
I hate how this community has become mostly politics lately. Its understandable since technology and politics are connected but still.
Mmmmm..... Is it politics, or ethics?
Can you be okay having ethics discussions in technology? If not, maybe the problem is less other people, and more you, not having any sort of spine.
I, too wish everything wasn't horrible, but think of it this way: technology is the stuff, made by the people, who make decisions and ideas. And so, it's important to know what the people are doing. Especially so for those of us without the privilege of benefit of being able to ignore politics.
I'm saying you're a privileged manipulator trying to quiet those trying to improve things, and I think that you should fix that, rather than complaining that people are talking about it in a passive aggressive, manipulate way.
Maybe you could make a community called "ethics blind technology"?
Or "unethical tech"?
Maybe even "aethical technology"
Politics are about control. When fascists are in charge. Everything is politics
I feel "tech" communities have always been more about smartphones and startups rather than actual tech.
Agree. With the extent of polarization we have there is very little that isn't political and it's depressing.
He is kissing his as so gently.
Nothing subtly though
This almost makes me wish I still used Apple products so that I could boycott them.
Ive been Apple free for 20 years though.
I'm of the opinion that Apple hasn't produced a good consumer friendly product since like the Apple II or the original Macintosh (debatable). Hell even the Lisa.
now people will say oh the original imac, ipod, and iphone were revolutionary and sure they were but they were by no means consumer friendly. They broke, and still do, easily. constant cord replacements, and computers you can't upgrade unless you were on like a G8 or PowerMac and even then your options for upgrades were limited. Add to the fact you're primarily paying for the name Apple more than anything else.
Add to the fact anything you buy from Apple is guaranteed to be obsolete, per the company, within a year or less. hell at one point they even treated their OS post X the same way.
And they've always been like this ever since Jobs was ORIGINALLY running the show. Remember the Macintosh required a special tool just to open it up, a tool only available to certain developers on the Macintosh team. For a guy that lived his life as a hippie he sure did love tossing electronics away willy nilly.
For most people Apple products are absolutely consumer friendly, what are you talking about? They’re amazingly simple to setup and go, the ecosystem actually works well, and they’re far more reliable than anything Microsoft could dream of putting out. They also don’t go obsolete within in a year, that’s total nonsense, and in fact they have generally had better support than their main competitors as far as I’ve seen. People I know have kept their Apple machines for a very long time without much issue. I myself had my first MacBook for ~11 years, from 2010 to 2021.
For people who to tinker with software there’s still a lot you can do on them but back in the Windows vs. Mac days some ill-informed people decided that because Apple products work well they must be hard to code on, despite the Unix based nature of them. Currently, many people I know in software are issued MacBooks and say they work very well while the Windows machine I got for something as simple as AutoCAD was constantly having issues.
Their consumer unfriendly tactics aren’t directly to connected to the capability of the machines. They 100% do some bad shit on that front, but it’s not enough to push most regular customers away. If you can’t figure out the difference between yourself and a regular customer then this isn’t a conversation you clearly have all the information for. Most of what you’re saying is just the usual parroted garbage that muddies the conversation and frankly makes it harder to deal with the companies actual failings because it just shows a grotesque inability to understand why people like their products.
I will be very clear: This overt move beyond the usual corpo nightmare has soured me a lot on their products, which sucks because they are objectively very good. I also don’t entirely know what to do about it as making a switch to Google products is just as bad a move. I’ve heard of a couple alternatives, we’ll see what the landscape will look like in a couple years when I need a phone and several years after that when a new laptop is required.
US oligarchs are friends with regime?
i wonder what trump will ise that for
What is engraved on it? What is he saying?
The engraving is irrelevant as the main glass piece will "accidentally" fall down and break, the 24k gold stand then would be put in storage where it will be "lost" and smelted down to a clean untraceable ingot
And Trump is just going to screw him over anyway, bribe or no bribe.
Would Steve Jobs done the same?
bet steve wouldn't even answer the phone call. he was a bit egotistical, lol, and i doubt he'd have patience for trump's bullshit regardless of the consequences.
Steve was a c off the old unt block but he sure would've told trump he could only have a gift with FUCKWITNET engraved all over it🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can't watch, the cringe is overpowering.
And I can't even accept a gift voucher due to anti-bribery rules? Fuck off.
you can't even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.
Bribe. The word you're looking for
Definitely, as after this it was announced that Apple would not be affected by the 100% semiconductor tariffs.
You're kidding, right? Right?
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