and Muricans go: "wE aRE noT thERe YeT!!"
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The other half are asking, “where are we going?”
Context for those who didn't catch the news article: https://www.advocate.com/news/tim-cook-donald-trump-gift
A little gift for the Sultan!
If they Act more like a King than a President..... Are they still just a President?
He is kissing Trumps ass, so lame. Am ending with buying new apple products!
Exactly. I’ve had iPhones since they came out. Next phone won’t be an iPhone.
That whole press conference was ridiculous. Tim Cook, I hope you remember this: you can kiss Trump‘s ass all you like. He can turn on you in a second anyway. And probably will.
That's the part that soooooo many people underestimate. There's a huge list of formerly "loyal" people who Trump tossed aside without a second thought. It's not political maneuvering after you put a crown on the man's head.
Cook made it for 0.0000029 Mooches before Trump implied that he’s a sissy.
What a cunt
I’m not saying that appeasement is always the way, but I’d rather Apple stayed off Trump’s vindictive side by giving him a little shiny toy then by giving them (for example) user data or backdoors into their platform.
Yes, in an ideal world, they’d tell the whole administration to go fuck itself, but they also don’t want to be destroyed by the government (however illegal that may be, do you really think they’d survive long enough for all the legal challenges to go through the system if Trump decided Apple had to go?)
You have zero way of knowing that there aren't some level of backdoors. There's zero reason to think they wouldn't fold for the US govt like they did for the Chinese government. Lastly there is no high ground here for Apple. It's bad enough that they go above and beyond to dodge taxes and this is them doing more of that but in a somewhat more shameful way than normal. Fuck em.
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This is the type of thinking that has put corporations above people. "Oh no the trillion dollar company can't do the right thing or they could go under!"
You never have more power against an authoritarian than you do right now.
You have to resist, push back, fight etc. or you keep losing.
If Trump would decide Apple "has to go", the US can stop pretending that they live in a democracy.
The US has pretty much never been a real democracy (other than in a roman sense, as in "power belongs to rich men").
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Apple should be destroyed by the goverment, case closed.
Regardless, as mister H. has shown and mister P. too, you can never appease a authoritarian monster, they always ask for more.
Yeah, because appeasing fascists has traditionally gone well...
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I'm curious what would happen if a band of rogue companies went full cyberpunk and just completely ignored/bypassed the administration. I know it would have terrible consequences but it fun to see an entity with fuck you money actually say fuck you.
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