What a way to launch John Crapple.
Whatever. They’ll still take the techbro paychecks and look the other way. Let me know when these nerds grow a spine.
This is the battle they are willing to fight? Your country picks an insane shit head for president and he wants to legally change the name of a lake and you throw a fit? What about fighting to allow ICE detection apps on the App store or standing up to assure your ai is honest and revealing about Trump administration atrocities?
It’s not their problem until it affects them.
Democracy is for the people, but the people vote intentional ignorance.
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.
Gee what’s it called when corporations and the government are welded together in a power block that controls everything about the nation? Help me out here guys I forget.
Great Again?
Corporations do not stand up to the government. Remember this. Drop any expectation that the coporate world would save you from a bad government.
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.
That was an unfortunate read.
There’s exceptions for sure. I should have said it’s a tendency.
That’s incorrect. They stand up to government all the time
Okay
Corporations control the government in the US. The government is bad because of corporations and neither are going to save you from either.
Exactly right. Dare I say the very right for working people to vote was won by organized labour, so even popular democracy is downstream from labour power. That’s the only real power we have against corporations.
Lacking any sort of balls to stand up to their great leader.
“it’s not a dictatorship. We just do what he wants because we’re afraid what he’ll do if we don’t,.”
Meanwhile Microsoft - following Trump’s orders, kickstarted and/or rapidly accelerated European digital sovereignity.
I feel strangely grateful to Microsoft for shooting itself in the foot like that
Apple, Google and Microsoft are merely support lackeys for the orange pedophile.
Apple, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, those are some of the pupeteers. The Orange Pedo, The Guardians Of the Pedophiles (GOP) party, and the corporate Fascism Lite Democratic Party (we promise to build one concentration camp fewer than the GOP, so vote for us Dems) are the lackeys.
We have to be careful, because The Democratic Party is not a monolith. Some of the Dems are actually economic populists, which is a good thing.
This doesn’t change the fact that most Dems are just the less angry, the slightly less brutal, and the smilier fascists who don’t literally rape people usually, unlike the GOP who are pro-rape in addition to being against democracy and against The Constitution outright.
Hakeem Jeffries recently met with Jared Kushner to, you know, talk about things and to plot together.
How I wish that everything I wrote above was just a giant hyperbole. But, everything I say here is factual. This timeline has me feeling like I am taking crazy pills every day.
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.
Yeah, for me (who hates Apple), this didn’t reflect poorly on them really. It reflected poorly on our system, where open bribes are applauded instead of punished, and where our leader can be purchased so easily. Apple just made a smart play. It isn’t their fault this was the smart thing to do.
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
You mean Tim Apple?
Cook is chairman of the board now. He hasn’t really gone anywhere.
I was going to say what’s changed from that day? Did those employees not see the news?
Meanwhile at Alphabet there’s not a soul who can speak
“Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a soul or an Alphabet when you are unable to speak?”
What did you expect from a Trillion dollar corporation, that gifted Trump a 24k gold and glass statue, made a $100B commitment to US manufacturing, and being among the “donors” of the White House ballroom? But changing the name of a lake? Too far…
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.
I’m not saying it isn’t pathetic, but Apple has a track record of gobbling Trump’s marbles for business, so it should be expected they aren’t risking anything over the name of a lake in their mapping service.
I don’t think this new CEO is going to last more than a year. He has all the charisma of Gil Amelio.
At least he shelved the Apple Vision headset. Hopefully he also canned the Apple Glasses and AirPods with camera that were rumored.
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.
It’s just Tim’s Newton. We’ll get something better in ten years, like we got the iPhone. But I don’t know that it will come from Apple unless we get someone more creative in the leadership role.
Most prominent CEOs want a successor that fails because it makes them look better in retrospect.
I mean, why would he care? Either way he gets obscene amounts of money for at the least a lazy years worth of work
Maybe. It’s inauspicious at best.
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…
What a bunch of loose, prolapsed assholes these execs are. How do they expect to usher forth a technocratic state if they can’t even separate themselves from the stupidest under the status quo?
Did anybody ask AI what it thinks about the name change?
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.
But they were okay with the Gulf of Mexico being renamed?
The random employees?
Should have used The Treaty of Canandaigua as their argument to the administration as to why they couldn’t change the name.
Grousing is a revolt?
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.
They were fine when Tim Apple gave Trump a trophy. It’s just a distancing tactic.
