Imagine prostrating yourself to Trump in this embarrassing way. Sheesh.
I hate how this community has become mostly politics lately. Its understandable since technology and politics are connected but still.
Tim Apple has turned into such a disappointing bootlicker.
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
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tim is smart. This is exactly how to survive your shit president, America. Bend him over and kiss his ass, and you’ll survive.
Trump is not a powerful wizard, all his power comes from people who give it to them. Those people have a choice, and this is it.
Or we can fight back and not lay down for the dictator as he destroys the entire country around us
They just made an assessment what it costs to fight vs what it costs to just kiss his ass and hope it will pass. The outcome is obvious.
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?
When you’re rich and powerful as fuck but still bend the knee to a felon rapist pedophile.
All of America’s most “powerful” people are little fucking bitches. Little bitches are calling the shots and representing us to the world. Jesus Christ how pathetic is this country going to get?
Conservatives: Hold my beer.
reality is often disappointing.
Don’t understand how this isn’t criminal in America.
It is. Except that the law doesn’t protect people. People protect the law. If a law is there on paper, but no one will enforce it, then it isn’t a law. It’s just some words on paper.
Capitalism
I don’t get why people are NOW saying he’s trying to appease trump. He’s been doing it for years. He was front row at his inauguration right next to other billionaires.
